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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bristol,UK : Channel View Publication, 2009.Description: viii, 188 p.: ill; 21 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • Unmediated
Carrier type:
  • Volume
ISBN:
  • 978-1-84541-090-2
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 307.3360846098 M25r
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographic references and index

English

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.

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