ghetto tourism was first studied in 2005 by michael stephens in the cultural-criticism journal, "popmatters". ghetto tourism includes all forms of entertainment — gangsta rap, video games, movies, tv, and other forms that allow consumers to traffic in the inner city without leaving home. international tourists to new york city in the 1980s led to a successful tourism boom in harlem. by 2002, philadelphia began offering tours of blighted inner-city neighborhoods. after hurricane katrina, tours were offered in flood-ravaged lower ninth ward, a notoriously violent and poor section of new orleans. the wire tour is a tour of slums in baltimore.