Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its development dynamics and its rapidly spreading popularity across the globe. Township tourism and favela tourism have currently reached mass tourism characteristics in South Africa and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In other countries of the Global South, slum tourism now also occurs and providers see huge growth potential.

While the morally controversial practice of slum tourism has raised much attention and opinionated debates in the media for several years, academic research has only recently started addressing it as a global phenomenon. This edition provides the first systematic overview of the field and the diverse issues connected to slum tourism. This multidisciplinary collection is unique both in its conceptual and empirical breadth. Its chapters indicate that ‘global slumming’ is not merely a controversial and challenging topic in itself, but also offers an apt lens through which to discuss core concepts in critical tourism studies in a global perspective, in particular: ‘poverty’, ‘power’ and ‘ethics’.

Building on research by prolific researchers from ten different countries, the book provides a comprehensive and unique insight in the current empirical, practical and theoretical knowledge on the subject. It takes a thorough and critical review of issues associated with slum tourism, asking why slums are visited, whether they should be visited, how they are represented, who is benefiting from it and in what way. It offers new insights to tourism's role in poverty alleviation and urban regeneration, power relations in contact zones and tourism's cultural and political implications.

Drawing on research from four continents and seven different countries, and from multidisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking volume will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in this contemporary form of tourism.

贫民窟旅游是一种全球化的趋势，也是一种有争议的旅游形式。贫困的城市地区一直吸引着大众的想象，被认为是 "另类"、"道德败坏"、"偏离自由 "或 "真实性 "的地方。贫民窟 "在全球北方有着悠久的传统，例如在维多利亚时代的伦敦，上层阶级在东区游玩。然而，新的东西是它的发展动力和它在全球范围内迅速蔓延的流行。在南非和巴西的里约热内卢，乡镇旅游和贫民窟旅游目前已经达到了大众旅游的特点。在全球南方的其他国家，现在也出现了贫民窟旅游，供应商看到了巨大的增长潜力。

虽然几年来，贫民窟旅游这种在道德上有争议的做法已经引起了媒体的广泛关注和意见辩论，但学术研究只是在最近才开始将其作为一种全球现象来处理。本版对该领域以及与贫民窟旅游相关的各种问题进行了首次系统的概述。这个多学科的集合在其概念和经验的广度上都是独一无二的。它的章节表明，"全球贫民窟化 "不仅仅是一个有争议和有挑战性的话题本身，而且还提供了一个合适的视角，通过它来讨论全球视角下批判性旅游研究的核心概念，特别是："贫困"、"权力 "和 "伦理"。

在来自10个不同国家的多产研究人员的研究基础上，该书提供了关于该主题的当前经验、实践和理论知识的全面而独特的见解。它对与贫民窟旅游相关的问题进行了彻底和批判性的审查，询问为什么要访问贫民窟，是否应该访问，如何表现，谁从中受益以及以何种方式受益。它对旅游业在扶贫和城市复兴中的作用、接触区的权力关系以及旅游业的文化和政治影响提出了新的见解。

这本开创性的书籍借鉴了四大洲和七个不同国家的研究，并从多学科的角度出发，对于对这种当代旅游形式感兴趣的学生、研究人员和学者来说，这本书将是有价值的读物。