{"id":21948,"date":"2015-05-19T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T13:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=21948"},"modified":"2015-05-19T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T13:08:29","slug":"jeep-tour-not-received-well-by-favela-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=21948","title":{"rendered":"Jeep Tour Not Well Received by Favela Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the original in Portuguese, by Lana de Souza, published in Coletivo Papo Reto,\u00a0click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to residents of Rio de Janeiro\u2019s favelas, the presence of Jeep tours in their communities makes them feel like animals in a zoo, constantly being photographed in an invasive<\/a> manner. Some of the residents, acting as local guides, believe there are better ways<\/a> for visitors to get to know the favelas.<\/p>\n

Thiago Firmino, a resident of Santa Marta<\/a>, became a favela tour guide<\/a> and claims that \u201cthe Jeep tour comes into the Santa Marta favela without using a local guide and, with no respect for the residents, the tourists take photographs wildly. They don\u2019t tell the true story of the favela and come in only to exploit\u00a0without taking into consideration the impact they are having.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inspired by the interview<\/a> that Arnold Bloch conducted with teacher Barbara Nascimento for O Globo<\/em> newspaper in January this year, Marcelo Mirisola, who is a writer and playwright, wrote an article for Yahoo News<\/em><\/a>, in which he declared this type of tour worse than a safari.\u00a0\u201cNot even the robberies on the beaches or those on Avenida Brasil, there is nothing, there is no disgrace in this city that can compare to the savagery of Jeeps filled with tourists armed with cameras on the stereotypical hunt, ascending the hills. It is worse than a safari. The name for this is not tourism, it is something\u2014I have been thinking hard\u2014that goes beyond savagery. The name for this is humiliation,\u201d wrote Mirisola.<\/p>\n

For Mariluce Mari\u00e1, an artist who lives in Complexo\u00a0do\u00a0Alem\u00e3o<\/a>, it is important to exchange knowledge with the tourists who\u00a0come to visit. \u201cMy husband Cl\u00e9ber sells the art pieces that I make. We used to organize a tour people called experience\u00a0tourism as people came to truly know what our daily life is like. They left extremely satisfied,\u201d explained the artist.<\/p>\n

Asked\u00a0about the best way to be a tourist\u00a0in favelas, Thiago concludes objectively: \u201cThe ideal is to do a respectful tour. One that can generate local income. One that is led by a local guide who can tell the true story of the favela and attempt to demystify and challenge the stereotype<\/a> that is ascribed to favela residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

A statement published on the website jeeptour.com.br<\/a> says it is possible to experience cultural shock\u00a0on their tours. The company also declares that there is great diversity in the favelas when it comes to the issue of survival, that favelas are places where is it natural for\u00a0everyone to have a smile stamped\u00a0on their face, despite daily difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the original in Portuguese, by Lana de Souza, published in Coletivo Papo Reto,\u00a0click\u00a0here. According to residents of Rio de Janeiro\u2019s favelas, the presence of Jeep tours in their communities makes them feel like animals […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":22124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1294,1328,1268,1330],"tags":[32,1634,1561,1560,1635,37,66,156,194],"writer":[1623],"translator":[1537],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-communitymedia","8":"category-by-community-contributors","9":"category-favelaculture","10":"category-translation","11":"tag-complexo-do-alemao","12":"tag-exploitation","13":"tag-favela-tour","14":"tag-favela-tour-operator","15":"tag-jeep-tour","16":"tag-north-zone","17":"tag-santa-marta","18":"tag-south-zone","19":"tag-tourism","20":"writer-lana-de-souza","21":"translator-wendy-turner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21948"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=21948"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=21948"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=21948"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=21948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}