印度孟买为游客提供贫民窟住宿体验 你想试试吗？

据英国《卫报》1月29日报道，印度近日推出一项特色旅游服务——给游客提供孟买贫民窟的住宿体验。

孟买一家非政府组织工作人员、32岁的荷兰人戴维·比杰和孟买贫民窟居民拉维·桑西联手打造了这项服务。桑西的家就是其中一个“旅馆”，他的家里有一个新“阁楼”，里面配备了平板电视、空调和新的床垫，这些物品在大部分贫民窟居民眼里都是奢侈品。

比杰说，贫民窟一晚上的住宿费是2000卢比（约合人民币199元），这笔钱全部交给提供住宿的家庭；他已经从那些希望邀请客人入住的贫民窟家庭获得很多好处。

他进一步指出，贫民窟是“真实的孟买的一部分”，任何想要了解这座城市的不平等问题的人都需要了解贫民窟的生活。他认为，以其他方式游览这里往往是“肤浅的”，“游客们进来拍几张1放到脸谱网页面上，没有真正理解任何东西就离开了”。

在孟买的2000万居民里，大约有60%住在贫民窟。这座城市房屋稀缺且昂贵，即便是最富有的居民，都对租金和房价有怨言。在这里，贫民窟旅游项目并不新鲜，但是一直存在争议。

支持者认为，这项旅游提供了一个了解何为贫穷的窗口，游客和贫民窟居民都能从互动中获益，特别是如果这笔钱直接到了后者手里。旅游公司Reality Tours and Travels的经理阿希姆·谢赫在过去11年里一直带游客去孟买的一个贫民窟游览。他说，这既可以消除贫民窟很脏、犯罪猖獗的负面形象，又可以让人们看到这里常人的生活方式。

不过，“贫民窟居民国际”（Slum Dwellers International）组织的总裁阿皮塔姆对该计划提出批评。他说：“这些旅游是毫无意义的，在这里住上一晚并没有任何作用。这不是博物馆里陈列的物品，也不是动物园里的动物。这是一个社区，真实的人在这里过着自己的生活。住上一晚既不能帮助游客，也不能帮助这些家庭。”

来源：海外网

Do you want to try out the slum accommodation experience for tourists in Mumbai, India?

According to the guardian of the UK in January 29th, India has recently launched a special tourism service to provide visitors with the accommodation experience of the Mumbai slums.

The service was created by a non-governmental organization staff member in Mumbai, 32 year old Dutch David Bij and Mumbai slum dweller Ravi San West. San Xi's home is one of the "hotels". His family has a new "loft", which is equipped with flat-panel televisions, air conditioners and new mattresses, which are luxury products for most slums residents.

Bijie said, the slum night accommodation fee is 2000 rupees (about 199 yuan), the money is all delivered to the family providing accommodation. He has gained many benefits from the slums families who want to invite guests to stay.

He further pointed out that the slums are part of the "real Mumbai". Anyone who wants to know the inequality of the city needs to know the life of the slums. He thought that touring here in other ways is often "superficial". "Tourists came in to take some photos, put them on Facebook webpage, and didn't really understand anything, and then left."

About 60% of the 20 million inhabitants of Mumbai live in slums. The city's houses are scarce and expensive, and even the richest residents complain about rent and house prices. Here, the slum tourism project is not new, but it has been controversial.

Supporters believe that this tourism provides a window to understand what poverty is, and tourists and slum dwellers can benefit from interaction, especially if the money goes directly to the latter. Achim Sheikh, the manager of Reality Tours and Travels, a tourist company, has been taking tourists to a slum in Mumbai for the past 11 years. He said this could eliminate the negative image of dirty and rampant crime in the slums, and let people see the way people live here.

However, A P Tamm, the president of Slum Dwellers International, criticized the plan. "These tours are meaningless, and there's no effect on the night here," he said. This is not an object on display in a museum, nor is it an animal in a zoo. This is a community where real people live their lives here. Staying in the last night can neither help nor help the families. "