Tourism depends on the circulation of a desired image of the Caribbean as untouched yet within reach; the [all inclusive] resort, the ultimate fragmentation of the environment, allows for the untouched to be curated and fortified…Any random contact, or open ensemble, admits the risk that consumer satisfaction may be confronted by uncertainty…Once again the situation is paradoxical in that it is only though the erection of barriers that the world can be offered as being without frontiers for those privileged enough to take the journey.

— Gavan Titley qouted by Mimi Sheller, Consuming the Caribbean. [via)