Ministry of Tourism and Sports
Ministerio de Turismo y Deportes

Torre Brunetta, headquarters of the Ministry
Ministry overview
Formed2001; 23 years ago (2001) (first creation)
DissolvedDecember 10, 2023; 3 months ago (December 10, 2023)
JurisdictionGovernment of Argentina
HeadquartersBrunetta Tower, Suipacha 1111, Buenos Aires
Annual budget$ 9,995,672,048 (2021)[1]
Minister responsible
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  • National Institute for the Promotion of Tourism
  • National Antidoping Commission
  • National Agency for High Performance in Sports
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The Ministry of Tourism and Sports (Spanish: Ministerio de Turismo y Deportes; MTyD) of Argentina was a ministry of the national executive power that oversaw and advised on Argentina's national tourism industry and the Argentine state's sports policy.

History

It was created on 29 October 2001 as an extension of the Ministry of Culture, as the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports, by President Fernando de la Rúa.[2] The first minister responsible was Hernán Lombardi, but his tenure – as well as the ministry's existence – was cut short by the resignation of De la Rúa and his entire government less than two months later on 20 December 2001.[3]

The tourism and sports portfolios were downgraded to a number of secretariat-level agencies of different ministries (chiefly Culture) by the following presidencies until 2010, when it was reinstated to ministerial level by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who appointed Carlos Enrique Meyer at the helm of the Ministry of Tourism.[4] Gustavo Santos, the minister of tourism appointed by President Mauricio Macri, remained in office as Secretary of Tourism as the ministry was downgraded in a 2018 cabinet reshuffle that saw the number of cabinet ministries reduced from 22 to 11, though this arrangement was short-lived as the portfolio was reinstated as the Ministry of Tourism and Sports on 10 December 2019; Fernández's appointee to the ministry was Matías Lammens, former president of Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro and Buenos Aires mayoral candidate in 2019 for the Frente de Todos.[5]

The ministry was dissolved on December 10, 2023 following a presidential decree by President Javier Milei.

Attributions

As established by the ruling Ley de Ministerios ("Ministries Law"), adopted in December 2019, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports was reinstated (from having previously been part of the Culture Ministry's portfolio) due to tourism being a "pivotal activity for the development of the nation," and due to the need of "rationally exploiting it" making use of tourist attractions and resources", as well as coordinating the national sports industry.[6]

The Ministry's responsibilities and attributions were outlined in Article 23 (nonies) of the law, which states that, among others, it was within the ministry's competence overseeing the design and execution of plans and programs pertaining to the tourism and high-performance sports in Argentina; promoting tourism and developing Argentina's image on an international scale as well as internally in Argentina itself; coordinating the joint work of the Federal Council of Tourism and the National Council of Sports and Physical Activities; working alongside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to represent Argentina on a global scale in tourism and sports-related areas, as well as working alongside the Ministry of Transport to elaborate and implement national policy dealing with commercial air travel in tourism-related areas; and promoting the "Argentina Brand", among others.[6]

Structure and dependencies

From 2019-2023, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports was organized into the following centralized dependencies:[7][8]

Additionally, a number of decentralized dependencies also report to the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, including the National Institute for the Promotion of Tourism (Instituto Nacional de Promoción Turística; Inprotur),[9] the National Antidoping Commission (Comisión Nacional Antidopaje, CNAD),[10] and the National Agency for High Performance in Sports (Ente Nacional de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo, ENARD).[11]

Headquarters

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports is headquartered in the Brunetta Tower (Torre Brunetta), a 30 storey-high building located in Suipacha 1111, in the Retiro barrio of Buenos Aires; as of 2018, the ministry owned three floors and rented another four.[12] The tower, also known as Torre Olivetti, is a little over 100 meters tall and was completed in 1965; its first occupant was the Olivetti S.A. firm.[13]

List of ministers

No. Minister Party Term President
Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports (2001)
1 Hernán Lombardi Radical Civic Union 29 October 2001 – 20 December 2001 Fernando de la Rúa
Ministry of Tourism (2010–2018)
2 Enrique Meyer Justicialist Party 28 June 2010 – 10 December 2015 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
3 Gustavo Santos Republican Proposal 10 December 2015 – 5 September 2018 Mauricio Macri
Ministry of Tourism and Sports (2019–2023)
4 Matías Lammens Independent 10 December 2019 – 10 December 2023 Alberto Fernández

See also

References

  1. ^ "Presupuesto 2021". Ministerio de Economía (in Spanish). 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. ^ Slipczuk, Martín (26 August 2019). "Ministerios: cuántos y cuáles fueron en cada gestión". Chequeado (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Decreto 13 / 2001". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). 24 December 2001. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Meyer fue distinguido por su labor como ministro de Turismo". Reportur (in Spanish). 7 November 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  5. ^ "¿Quién es Matías Lammens?". Ámbito (in Spanish). 6 December 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Decreto 7/2019". Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina (in Spanish). 10 December 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Ministerio de Turismo y Deportes". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Ministerio de Turismo y Deportes". jefatura.gob.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Para el Inprotur, el turismo tiene la capacidad de resurgir con rapidez". Télam (in Spanish). 2 April 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  10. ^ "Decreto 124/2020". infoleg.gob.ar (in Spanish). 10 February 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  11. ^ "Lammens, ante un doble desafío: reestructurar el deporte e impulsar el turismo". Doble Amarilla (in Spanish). 6 December 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  12. ^ "Sobreprecios en los alquileres de oficinas del Ministerio de Turismo". Cámara de Turismo de la provincia de Mendoza (in Spanish). 29 June 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  13. ^ Contreras, Leonel (2005). Rascacielos porteños (PDF) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. p. 149. ISBN 987-1037-30-9.

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