Tourism enclaves are characterized by a strong socio-spatial regulation of host-guest relations described above, and often incur the critique of neo-colonialism. Regulatory controls, structure, and hierarchical flow of capital, management, goods, and services are typically dominated by external forces. This results in power inequalities, particularly in peripheral areas and developing regions. Due to strict enclave policing and structuring of tourism activities, tourism enclaves have no real interaction with surrounding communities and local benefits are limited Although tourism is frequently promoted as a panacea for survival in developing countries, much of tourism development in the developing world has been enclave in nature and based on economically and politically unequal exploitative relationships. Most all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean and Africa are controlled by foreign investors and outside corporations—often reinforcing neo-colonial patterns of socioeconomic and spatial polarization. These resort enclaves incorporate prepaid package tours purchased in the tourists’ home country. These typically include transportation, accommodation, and excursions with controlled mobility of visitors to the relative exclusion of local traders and service providers. The boundary of exchange between resort enclaves and local communities may consist primarily of importing low-skill labour while nonlocals are typically employed in professional and managerial positions. Tourism resort enclaves thus lead to economic leakages, marginalization of hosts, and deterioration rather than the enhancement of the socioeconomic balance .