Playa del Carmen: Town In Search of a Village is a travel guide to the fastest growing town in Mexico and the Caribbean during the 1990's. In addition to recommendations on hotels, bars, restaurants, entertainment venues and short descriptions of many towns on the Yucatan Peninsula, the book offers advice from a not-so-green gringo on how tourists might enjoy themselves and avoid problems while vacationing in playa and its environs. The book is also an outsiders' spin on the social and economic challenges which face a small village and its residents when it rapidly becomes a bustling tourist town in an evolving nation.