Residential tourism : (de)constructing paradise

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

Mason R. McWatters

(Tourism and cultural change)

Channel View Publications, c2009

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Residential tourism : deconstructing paradise

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index

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Volume

: pbk ISBN 9781845410902

Description

Residential Tourism: (De)Constructing Paradise offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating in both size and number throughout Latin America. Amidst the widespread development and promotion of international destinations of residential "paradise" 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 dynamic phenomenon has on the people and places it directly affects at the local level. Utilizing the community of Boquete, Panama as a case study, this book examines how two diverse residential groups - the native community who have lived in the area for generations and the foreign residential tourists who have just recently relocated abroad - coexist in a shared place of home, define their experiences of place and community, and confront the mass development of residential tourism in Boquete.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Understanding Residential Tourism Chapter Two: Spatial Interpretations: Seeing Landscape, Sensing Place Chapter Three: Locating Boquete in Space and Time Chapter Four: Longing for Landscape: Assessing Residential Tourists' Experiences of Boquete Chapter Five: The Estranging Place: Assessing Native Residents' Experiences of Boquete Chapter Six: Conclusion Appendix One: Boquete: a pueblo that is living the last days of its history. Written by Ulices Urriola Appendix Two: This is the story of a farmer who sold his land to a foreigner for a great amount of money. Written by Ulices Urriola Appendix Three: Methodological Notes References
Volume

: hbk ISBN 9781845410919

Description

Residential Tourism: (De)Constructing Paradise offers the first in-depth, critical exploration of the foreign retirement/expatriate communities proliferating in both size and number throughout Latin America. Amidst the widespread development and promotion of international destinations of residential “paradise” 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 dynamic phenomenon has on the people and places it directly affects at the local level. Utilizing the community of Boquete, Panama as a case study, this book examines how two diverse residential groups – the native community who have lived in the area for generations and the foreign residential tourists who have just recently relocated abroad – coexist in a shared place of home, define their experiences of place and community, and confront the mass development of residential tourism in Boquete.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Understanding Residential Tourism Chapter Two: Spatial Interpretations: Seeing Landscape, Sensing Place Chapter Three: Locating Boquete in Space and Time Chapter Four: Longing for Landscape: Assessing Residential Tourists’ Experiences of Boquete Chapter Five: The Estranging Place: Assessing Native Residents’ Experiences of Boquete Chapter Six: Conclusion Appendix One: Boquete: a pueblo that is living the last days of its history. Written by Ulices Urriola Appendix Two: This is the story of a farmer who sold his land to a foreigner for a great amount of money. Written by Ulices Urriola Appendix Three: Methodological Notes References

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