Fair Trade Tourism
and vibrant green paddy fields. But if they go up into the hills they find a region inhabited by hill
tribe people, who live basic, subsistence life. Local people are looking at tourists with fear and
disdain. In the villages children are playing and mothers with elaborate headdresses are getting on
their daily lives, but if tourists come, they run indoors and villages become silent. In Thailand hill
tribe treks have become infamous ,,human zoos". Tourists from all over the world traipse through
the villages and this causes cultural and economic disaster. Also the benefits of toursim are often
skimmed off by businessmen from outside the community. It ruins and changes the local peoples
culture. The Masai of East Africa, for instance, are used as icons of exoticism in toursism, but they
have been evicted from their lands. The Masais are selling souvenirs, charging for pictures and
performing their sacred dances for tourists to get living
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