Secretary of State for Tourism

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Secretary of State for Tourism
Secretario de Estado de Turismo
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Coat of Arms used by the Government
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Incumbent
Rosario Sánchez Grau
since April 17, 2024
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism
Secretariat of State for Tourism
Style The Most Excellent (formal)
Mrs. Secretary of State (informal)
AbbreviationSETUR
Reports to Industry Minister
Nominator Industry Minister
Appointer Monarch
PrecursorUnder Secretary of Tourism
FormationJuly 4, 1977
First holderIgnacio Aguirre Borrell
Website turismo.gob.es

The Secretary of State for Tourism (SETUR) is a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of the Government of Spain.

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The Secretary of State for the Tourism is responsible for carrying out as many actions as are necessary for the definition, development, coordination and execution of the Government's tourist policies, without prejudice to the competencies of the Interministerial Committee for Tourism, as well as the institutional tourist relations of the General State Administration with international, public or private organizations, and international tourism cooperation, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In addition, and through the Tourism Institute of Spain (TURESPAÑA), whose Presidency corresponds to the Secretary of State, the SET exercises the function of external promotion of tourism. It's also the department responsible for the management of the Fund for the Modernization of Tourist Infrastructures (FOMIT), a fund destined to support the renovation and modernization plans of developed tourist destinations manage by the local administrations and public tourist companies. [1]

History

The Office of Secretary of State for Tourism was created in summer 1977 after a massive State Administration reform. According to the law that created it, the Secretariat of State assumed the competences of the suppressed Undersecretariat of Tourism and all the bodies that integrated it were transferred to the new Secretariat of State. [2] The Undersecretariat of Tourism was created in 1952 [3] and was integrated in the Ministry of Information and Tourism, that was also suppressed in 1977 and replaced by the Ministry of Trade and Tourism.

In 1982, the Secretariat of State is suppressed after a government reform that created a new Ministry called Ministry of Transport, Tourism and Communications and its competences were transferred to a newly body named General Secretariat for Tourism. This General Secretariat survived until 2011 but since 1996 to 2000 was subordinated to the Secretariat of State for Trade, Tourism and SMEs with the First Aznar Government, to the Secretary of State for Trade and Tourism from 2000 to 2004 with the Second Aznar Government, to the Secretary of State for Tourism and Trade from 2004 to 2008 with the First Zapatero Government and from 2008 to 2011 to the Secretary of State for Tourism, after being suppressed by the pro-austerity Government of Mariano Rajoy.

Since 2011 the Secretariat of State has been autonomous and mainly focused in managing the Spanish tourism sector which has become one of the most developed and most important sectors in the economy, representing almost a 12% of GDP and a 13% of the employment by 2018 [4] with more than 82 million tourist each year. [5]

Names

Structure

The Secretariat of State is composed of three departments, all of them run by a Deputy Director-General: [1]

From the Secretariat of State also depends organically the Solicitor's Office in the Ministry and the state-owned companies Institute of Tourism of Spain (TURESPAÑA), Paradores and the State Mercantile Society for the Management of Innovation and Tourism Technologies (SEGITTUR).

List of SETURs

No.ImageNameTerm of Office Prime Minister
BeganEndedDays of Service
Escudo de Espana (mazonado).svg Ignacio Aguirre Borrell12 July 197728 February 19811327 Adolfo Suárez
Escudo de Espana (mazonado).svg Eloy Ybáñez Bueno9 March 1981 [6] 8 December 1982639 Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
Escudo de Espana (mazonado).svg José Manuel Fernández Norniella [7] 8 May 199620 June 1998773 José María Aznar
Elena Pisonero EJECON Premios 5 marzo 2018.jpg Elena Pisonero Ruiz20 June 19966 May 20001416
Juan Costa 2007 (cropped).jpg Juan Costa Climent6 May 20006 September 20031218
Escudo de Espana (mazonado).svg Francisco Utrera Mora6 September 200320 April 2004227
Escudo de Espana (mazonado).svg Pedro Mejía Gómez24 April 200422 April 20081459 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Escudo de Espana (mazonado).svg Joan Mesquida Ferrando22 April 200827 July 20102285
Isabel Borrego, Secretary of State for Tourism, Spain (17165066792).jpg Isabel María Borrego31 December 201112 November 20161778 Mariano Rajoy
10º Matilde Asian.jpg Matilde Asian González22 November 201619 June 2018574
11º Isabel Maria Oliver Sagreras 2019.jpg Isabel Maria Oliver Sagreras19 June 2018 [8] 15 July 2020757 Pedro Sánchez
12º Escudo de Espana (mazonado).svg Fernando Valdés Verelst15 July 2020 [9] 21 December 2022889
13º FOTO SETUR R MORILLO.jpg Rosa Ana Morillo Rodríguez21 December 202217 April 2024483
14º Escudo de Espana (mazonado).svg Rosario Sánchez Grau17 April 2024Incumbent148

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