“…In particular, the paper takes a post-structuralist and critical policy sociology approach (Gale, 2001), differentiating itself from traditional, narrative approaches commonly used to explain the evolution of tourism planning and policy (cf. Dredge & Jenkins, 2007;Dredge, Jenkins, & Whitford, 2011;Hall & Zapata-Campos, 2014;Jenkins, Hall, & Knono, 2014). Such approaches often are framed within a particular cultural and institutional setting, they are often linear explanations, and therefore do not adequately take into account the influence of complex, multilayered, multi-sectoral shifts in ideas that occur in what Luhmann (1995) would call different "social interaction systems".…”