In Cape Town you can take township tours and maybe learn about the history of apartheid.

In Kenya, visitors can take a walking tour of the Kibera slums and see flying toilets for about $26. Kibera is Nairobi largest slum, and the largest urban slum in Africa.

Now a luxury South African hotel is capitalizing on poverty tourism. The Emoya Luxury Hotel & Spa offers the Emoya Shanty Town Experience – a fake slum in its own private game reserve – according to a report by Arit John in TheAtlanticWire.

For $82 a night – a little less than half the average monthly salary in South Africa – four people can spend a night in a shack made of corrugated iron sheets – but that’s where the resemblance to poverty ends. These shacks have heated floors and Wi-Fi access.

Emoya says the Shanty Town Experience is great for team building, barbecues, and fancy theme parties. Emoya owns a private game preserve in Bloemfontein, aka the City of Flowers.

Here’s how Emoya sells the Shanty Town Experience, according to TheAtlanticWire:

“Millions of people are living in informal settlements across South Africa. These settlements consist of thousands of houses also referred to as shacks, shantys or makhukhus. A shanty usually consists of old corrugated iron sheets or any other waterproof material which is constructed in such a way to form a small house or shelter where they make a normal living. …

“Now you can experience staying in a shanty within the safe environment of a private game reserve. This is the only shanty town in the world equipped with under-floor heating and wireless internet access.”

In his Africa Is a Country blog, Zachary Levenson said he finds this troubling, TheAtlanticWire reports. Beyond the tourism aspect, Levenson said, “No one wants to live in a shack, not a single damn person. This is a housing type and spatial form that emerges from necessity.”

There’s nothing “waterproof” about iron sheets, Levenson writes. It’s one thing to turn someone’s circumstances into a glamorous vacation and another to pretend that socio-economic conditions like poverty, the legacy of apartheid or South Africa’s housing crisis, don’t exist. Just 15 percent of black South Africans are upper or middle class, Levenson writes, and the majority earn $135 a month or less, according to Sipho Hlongwane at South Africa’s Business Day.