Natchez city leaders are wise to try and rethink how the city’s various tourism wings work.

Through the years, what began as a relatively straightforward system has become complicated, as layer upon layer of complexity has been added on top of the last.

With each new layer usually comes the complication of money — mostly in the form of sales tax, sometimes a sales-tax-like fee — that further complicates matters.

The fact is most of the folks who have led the city’s tourism management don’t fully understand the roles.

As Monday’s meeting with city aldermen revealed, the head of the city’s tourism department must — at least under the current system — serve two masters — the Natchez Board of Aldermen and the Natchez Convention Promotion Commission.

That’s a recipe for disaster.

And, lo and behold, a disaster is exactly what the city found earlier this year when problems arose at the Natchez Convention and Visitors Bureau. Ultimately, the city opted to basically start over, after firing the city’s tourism director and asking for the resignations of all of the members of the convention promotion commission.

While that solved the immediate problem, the city is now faced with trying to make sense of the convoluted system.

We hope they will take their time, think through what needs to change and create an easy to understand system that works well for everyone.