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This article from Stahili's Transparency Officer discusses what it means to be an ethical tourist, including five practical tips for ethical travel and tourism. 

This article from the "Good Tourism" Blog is a commentary on orphanage volunteering and tourism as a form of modern slavery, highlighting a recent article featured in The Conversation and current efforts working to end orphanage tourism. 

This article describes how orphanage tourism is linked to the exploitation of children and modern slavery. 

This blog post from Ayana Journeys offers alternatives to orphanage volunteering for those looking to "do good" while traveling. 

The Headquarters of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) hosted international experts and officials at UNWTO headquarters in Madrid to discuss the persisting issue of the sexual exploitation of children in the tourism industry. 

Many children living in Nepalese orphanages are not truly "orphans," but were rather trafficked into orphanages after their families were falsely promised their children would be brought to boarding schools to receive an education. Next Generation Nepal aims to reunite trafficked children with their families. 

Lending a helping hand in countries with poor health infrastructure is usually well intentioned—but it can cause serious harm.

An article from Stahili on how orphanages are used as marketing strategies to appeal to volunteers.