The New York Times busted out a piece Sunday about tourism in the Tenderloin:

“We can bring people into an SRO and show them where people are living now,” Mr. Shaw said, referring to the single-room occupancy dwellings, or residential hotels, in the area. “And that’s a real plus.”

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The district’s drug trade is so widespread, and so wide open, that the police recently asked for special powers to disperse crowds on certain streets. Deranged residents are a constant presence, and after dark the neighborhood can seem downright sinister, with drunken people collapsed on streets and others furtively smoking pipes in doorways. (link)

Really?  Bring them into an SRO so some obese fuck from Oklahoma with a $10,000 camera can gawk?  You know, not everything has to be tourist friendly.

UPDATE: Broke-Ass Stuart has a list of things one may see on the tour.