“…Czarniawska and Hernes, 2005), ANT offers the tourism researcher a practical, fieldwork-based orientation (Jóhannesson, 2005), with its emphasis on detailed examination and description of relationships between actors in practice, offering 'examples, cases, and stories of how things work, of how relations and practices are ordered' (van der Duim, Ampumuza and Ahebwa, 2014: 590). It therefore aligns with a body of work which characterises tourism as a process through which places are ordered, performed and produced (Franklin, 2004;van der Duim, 2007a), and offers an opportunity to extend our understanding of the social relations of tourism, challenging our ontological stance by admitting non-human actors, and breaking down preconceptions about the social nature of tourism and its organisation (Ren, 2010a). This focus highlights the processes that work continuously to produce and maintain assemblages of human and non-human actors, characterised in a tourism context as 'tourismscapes', defined as the 'complex relationships across space and through time between networked people and things, offering alternative structures of power and relationships' (van der Duim, Peters and Wearing, 2005: 293).…”