Tourism as a Tool Rehumanizing Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone Favelas Through a Community-Based Tourism Narrative

This article proposes a conceptual framework for community-based tourism in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone favelas that benefit the communities. The article sheds light on how local guides use tourism as a tool in countering the dominant image about favelas and how they seek to re-humanize the favela by providing a different cultural narrative as a reaction to the existing stereotypes, making these tours a form of everyday resistance. The article covers the actual impact of these tours by highlighting tourist perceptions before and after visiting a favela and includes the opinion of local favela residents about these tours.