Residential Tourism ：(De)Constructing Paradise ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：(De)Constructing Paradise

Publication series ：1

Author： McWatters   Mason R.  

Publisher： Channel View Publications‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9781845410926

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781845410902

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781845410902

Subject： F241.34 retirement system;F59 Tourism Economy;F8 Finances;K901 human geography

Keyword： 贸易经济

Language： ENG

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Description

This book offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating in both size and number throughout Latin America. 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.

Chapter

Contents

List of Figures

Chapter 1 Understanding Residential Tourism

Chapter 2 Spatial Interpretations: Seeing Landscape, Sensing Place

Chapter 3 Locating Boquete in Space and Time

Chapter 4 Longing for Landscape: Assessing Residential Tourists’ Experiences of Boquete

Chapter 5 The Estranging Place: Assessing Native Residents’ Experiences of Boquete

Chapter 6 Conclusion

Appendix 1 Boquete: A pueblo that is living thelast days of its history

Appendix 2 This is the story of a farmer who sold his land to a foreigner for a great amount of money

Appendix 3 Methodological Notes

References

Index

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