In the context of New Zealand, it is possible to describe the new organization, RTONZ, Local Government New Zealand’s (LGNZ) interest in tourism in the period 2000-2004 and most importantly funding by the Ministry of Tourism as ‘strange attractors’. Equally, as noted by another referee, free enterprise itself may be potentially subject to nonlinear patterns, and thus RTOs may change as their private enterprise partners’ wax and wane.