At the turn of the millennium, favelas of Rio de Janeiro were discovered by tourists and became part of a significant international travel flow, sharing the tourist gaze with slums in India, Townships in South Africa and other poverty destinations in the Global South. As result of that, the State recognised favelas of Rio as tourist attractions and promoted their commercialisation within the context of megaevents such as the FIFA World Cup 2014 and the Rio Olympics 2016. This was accompanied by urbanisation and security policies (PAC and UPP). These initiatives brought tourism to the forefront. Consultants, analysts, and technicians were engaged to study potentialities and prepare favela residents to tourism businesses, leading to an expansion beyond the traditional tourist areas of the city. Based on the theoretical framework of Mobilities Paradigm and Tourism Mobilities (Sheller and Urry, 2004, 2006, 2016), this paper presents a multisited ethnography (Marcus, 1995), that employed mobile methods (Buscher et al., 2011) involving both virtual and physical immersion. I followed the movements, was emotionally moved, and moved by impulse, with favela residents involved in tourism activities. Therefore, this study aims to present the discovery of favela tourism as a multisited field of research, tracing the trajectories, memories, and stories of favelas and its residents. As favela tourism expanded across the city, it specialised, differentiated and connected various guides and residents in different areas. However, this expansion also posed challenges. The rising economic value within favela areas began to displace long-term residents, social movements of resistance emerged, ranging from outright opposition to favela tourism to those seeking to participate on their own terms. In this context, community-based tourism proposals have gained traction as an alternative to mass tourism, becoming a significant aspect of local discourse and the main expression of favela tourism phenomenon in Rio.