Tour operators tout their ability to vet developers, agents, lawyers and the like, on behalf of newcomers clueless to the ways things work in foreign lands. “I’ve had people who said they learned more in one week from Tropical Pathways than it would take them a month to learn on their own” says Lyle Burke, who founded Tropical Pathways Tours… Panama is supplanting Costa Rica as the Central American country where retired North Americans are seeking their place in the sun.
USA TODAY