TY - BOOK AU - McWatters, Mason R. TI - Residential tourism : (de) constructing paradise SN - 978-1-84541-090-2 AV - 307.3360846098 M25r PY - 2009/// CY - Bristol,UK PB - Channel View Publication KW - Retirement, Places of KW - Tourism KW - Latin America N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -