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viii, 188 p.: ill 21 cm. "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. 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. Mason R. McWatters. Includes bibliographic references and index English Retirement, Places of Tourism Latin America 307.3360846098 M25r 978-1-84541-090-2 251212 20260803094059.0