Tourist activities and movements are arranged to facilitate maximum expenditures within the enclave while access to locales outside the enclave is usually restricted and controlled. Not surprisingly, enclave sorts of tourism play a big role in creating dependencies and adverse impacts like lack of local control and native ownership, marginalization of local benefits, and prevention of meaningful interactions between residents and tourism. This type of tourism is additionally cheaper to facilitate by external corporations, and least profitable to the host country. Exclusively planned tourism destinations, like all-inclusive resorts, gated resort communities, private cruise liner-owned islands and privatized beaches, have increased over the previous couple of decades. Researchers have analyzed these sorts of tourism environments as enclaves, which are typically driven by external forces and actors, strongly supported by globalization and therefore the current neoliberal free enterprise. Existing research shows that tourism enclaves are characterized by active border-making, power issues and material and/or symbolic separation from the encompassing socio-cultural realities, resulting in weak linkages with host communities and the local economy. Tourism enclaves involve power inequalities, injustices and unsustainable practices that always have serious negative impacts on local socio-economic development. The Journals  of the special issue specialize in tourism enclaves in several theoretical and geographical contexts and that they contribute to our understanding of how these exclusive spaces are created and transformed and the way they shape places and place identities. By focusing on these topics, the tourism industry could be guided towards more responsible and sustainable development path. exclusively planned tourism destinations and resorts have increased substantially over the last few decades