The World in Images
Favela tourism: Can poverty become a vacation video?
S5 • E69 Jun 11, 2026 11m
Filmed by drone in a Rio favela, a tourist walks through a landscape littered with corrugated iron and concrete. These viral videos, designed for online platforms, reignite the debate about tourism in the favelas: between a spectacle of misery and a reflection of a grim social reality.
