Residential Tourism : : (De)Constructing Paradise / / Mason R. McWatters.

Residential Tourism: (De)Constructing Paradise offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating in both size and number throughout Latin America. Amidst the widespread development and promotion of international destinations of residential...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Tourism and Cultural Change ; 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1. Understanding Residential Tourism
  • Chapter 2. Spatial Interpretations: Seeing Landscape, Sensing Place
  • Chapter 3. Locating Boquete in Space and Time
  • Chapter 4. Longing for Landscape: Assessing Residential Tourists' Experiences of Boquete
  • Chapter 5. The Estranging Place: Assessing Native Residents' Experiences of Boquete
  • Chapter 6. Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: Boquete: Apueblo that is living the last days of its history. Written by Ulices Urriola
  • Appendix 2: This is the story of a farmer who sold his land to a foreigner for a great amount of money. Written by Ulices Urriola
  • Appendix 3: Methodological Notes
  • References
  • Index