“…The use of the institutionalist framework to analyze public tourism policies is still timid, but can be found in the works of Gomes and Santos (2007), who dealt with the influences of public tourism policies on transactions between agents; Gomes (2008), who used the transaction costs approach to analyze the relationships between the actors of an instance of tourism governance in Minas Gerais; Alban (2021), who used the NIS to analyze the case of tourism in Praia do Forte (BA); Grechi (2011), to analyze the institutional matrix of tourism in Bonito (MS); Arruda , Mariani and Caleman (2014), on coordination and governance structures in a tourism production system; Falaster, Zanin and Guerrazzi (2017) demonstrated the potential of using institutionalist theory in tourism studies; Gomes (2018) on tourism public policies and entrepreneurs, in which he discusses public policies, tourism and institutionalism and Gomes, Giannini and Bassani (2020), who make an It considers individuals and the influence of the environment in the construction of politics and, also, the transformations over time. The individuals, their habits and routines (Veblen, 1919); the expansion of individual preferences in collective action (Commons, 1931) This approach makes it possible to analyze the legitimacy of public policies, programs and projects and the capacity of arrangements to favor or not the implementation of a public policy.…”