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Happy smiling African children: why school tourism in Zimbabwe shouldn’t be encouraged

By Kathleen Smithers, Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
A large, air-conditioned bus draws up outside a school. Tourists, most from Europe and the US, disembark, cameras at the ready. Some have brought gifts: packages of pens and pencils. They distribute these to the children, who spontaneously begin singing and dancing.

This scene and others like it play out in schools around the world. It’s called school tourism. It’s similar to orphanage tourism and so-called “slum”…The Conversation


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