The areas that I am interested in are surf tourism destinations (primarily focused on Rincon/Aguadilla/Isabella, Puerto Rico but also interested in various areas of Nicaragua, and Panama). 

Hi Account Closed, thank you for your response. from my initial research i see a lot of positive feedback on Portugal right now and Algarve seems to be the most popular destination for increasing tourism over the last few years. if you have any information that you can share such as rental yields, cash flow from an average vacation rental property etc, that would be great. also how is the cost of buying in Portugal now?

This is the one that Jesus embraced.

Now their way of life, fishing and tourism, is being destroyed.

There seems to be a lot of properties on the market since it's the slow season, so not sure if now is a good time to actually pull the trigger since it may not be until March or so when tourism picks back up. 

I'm not completely sure about the downturn, but can speculate that the tourism industry suffered during the recession, but seems to be rebounding pretty well now.I was just throwing it out there on posting those properties.

I don't fear a bubble, I embrace it.

It requires a different attitude in business than what a widget industry may embrace. 

It is a very long process as those use to a certain way want to maintain the status quo and as the younger generations come along they are more quick to embrace something new and a different way to live.

Brick by brick, house by house, I really love and try to embrace the working at it every day and every now and then looking back to see all that I have accomplished.