Residential tourism : (de) constructing paradise /
McWatters, Mason R.
Residential tourism : (de) constructing paradise / Mason R. McWatters. - Bristol,UK : Channel View Publication, 2009. - viii, 188 p.: ill 21 cm.
Includes bibliographic references and index
Understanding Residential Tourism -- Spatial Interpretations: Seeing Landscape, Sensing Place -- Locating Boquete in Space and Time -- Longing for Landscape: Assessing Residential Tourists` Experiences of Boquete -- Estranging Place: Assessing Native Residents` Experiences of Boquete.
"Residential Tourism: (De)Constructing Paradise offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating both in size and number throughout Latin America. Amidst the aggressive development and promotion of these international destinatiosn as residential `paradises` 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 residential tourism creates for the people and places it directly affects at the local level."--Jacket.
English
978-1-84541-090-2
Retirement, Places of
Tourism--Latin America
307.3360846098 M25r
Residential tourism : (de) constructing paradise / Mason R. McWatters. - Bristol,UK : Channel View Publication, 2009. - viii, 188 p.: ill 21 cm.
Includes bibliographic references and index
Understanding Residential Tourism -- Spatial Interpretations: Seeing Landscape, Sensing Place -- Locating Boquete in Space and Time -- Longing for Landscape: Assessing Residential Tourists` Experiences of Boquete -- Estranging Place: Assessing Native Residents` Experiences of Boquete.
"Residential Tourism: (De)Constructing Paradise offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating both in size and number throughout Latin America. Amidst the aggressive development and promotion of these international destinatiosn as residential `paradises` 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 residential tourism creates for the people and places it directly affects at the local level."--Jacket.
English
978-1-84541-090-2
Retirement, Places of
Tourism--Latin America
307.3360846098 M25r