RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Tourists usually try to run from Rio's notorious slums. Now officials are inviting them to come visit instead. The Santa Marta shantytown on Monday became the first community in ...

Sauntering through the busy streets filled with beautiful pottery, fine leather, exquisite puppetry, and sparkling sarees, I came across a man sitting by the side of the road. Noticing I was by myself ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 5 (Reuters) - A Rio de Janeiro tour company could be in trouble for giving tourists too intimate a view of life in the city's notorious slums, including photo opportunities with ...

Gridlocked traffic, filthy rivers, air that tastes of diesel - there is much that keeps Indonesia's capital Jakarta off the global tourist map. But for broke filmmaker Ronny Poluan, there is plenty of ...

Editor’s Note: Moni Basu, a reporter for CNN.com, was born in Kolkata, India and returns there every year. On a recent trip home to India, I heard a German man on my flight remark to another passenger ...

One of Samuel’s tour guides points down the track toward Mombasa. During the height of Kenya’s July-August tourist season, tens of thousands of travelers from around the world come here for wildlife ...

An American travel influencer has been slammed for promoting a 'tour of the slums' during her visit to India. Tara Katims, 24, who is from the US but recently moved to Mexico, posted a video advising ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover startups & enterprises in India and the UAE. As roughly half a million tourists poured into Rio for the Summer Olympics, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Rio de Janeiro tour company could be in trouble for giving tourists too intimate a view of life in the city's notorious slums, including photo opportunities with drug gang ...