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Residential tourism : (de)constructing paradise / Mason R. McWatters.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and cultural change ; 16.Publisher: Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Channel View Publications, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: viii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1845410912
  • 9781845410919
  • 1845410904
  • 9781845410902
Other title:
  • (de)constructing paradise
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.3360846098 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1063.2.L29 M39 2009
Contents:
1. Understanding Residential Tourism -- 2. Spatial Interpretations: Seeing Landscape, Sensing Place -- 3. Locating Boquete in Space and Time -- 4. Longing for Landscape: Assessing Residential Tourists' Experiences of Boquete --v 5. The Estranging Place: Assessing Native Residents' Experiences of Boquete -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Boquete: a pueblo 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.
Summary: "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 'paradise' intended for retirement, leisure, and experiences of exotica, this book draws on a diversity of perspectives in order to analyze the social and spatial impacts that this dynamic phenomenon has on the people and places it directly affects."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183) and index.

1. Understanding Residential Tourism -- 2. Spatial Interpretations: Seeing Landscape, Sensing Place -- 3. Locating Boquete in Space and Time -- 4. Longing for Landscape: Assessing Residential Tourists' Experiences of Boquete --v 5. The Estranging Place: Assessing Native Residents' Experiences of Boquete -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Boquete: a pueblo 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.

"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 'paradise' intended for retirement, leisure, and experiences of exotica, this book draws on a diversity of perspectives in order to analyze the social and spatial impacts that this dynamic phenomenon has on the people and places it directly affects."--Publisher's website.

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