Secretary of State for Tourism | |
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Secretario de Estado de Turismo | |
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Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism Secretariat of State for Tourism | |
Style | The Most Excellent (formal) Mrs. Secretary of State (informal) |
Abbreviation | SETUR |
Reports to | Industry Minister |
Nominator | Industry Minister |
Appointer | Monarch |
Precursor | Under Secretary of Tourism |
Formation | July 4, 1977 |
First holder | Ignacio 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.
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 turist destinations manage by the local administrations and public tourist companies. [1]
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]
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).
No. | Image | Name | Term of Office | Prime Minister | ||
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Began | Ended | Days of Service | ||||
1º | ![]() | Ignacio Aguirre Borrell | 12 July 1977 | 28 February 1981 | 1327 | Adolfo Suárez |
2º | ![]() | Eloy Ybáñez Bueno | 9 March 1981 [6] | 8 December 1982 | 639 | Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo |
3º | ![]() | José Manuel Fernández Norniella [7] | 8 May 1996 | 20 June 1998 | 773 | José María Aznar |
4º | ![]() | Elena Pisonero Ruiz | 20 June 1996 | 6 May 2000 | 1416 | |
5º | ![]() | Juan Costa Climent | 6 May 2000 | 6 September 2003 | 1218 | |
6º | ![]() | Francisco Utrera Mora | 6 September 2003 | 20 April 2004 | 227 | |
7º | ![]() | Pedro Mejía Gómez | 24 April 2004 | 22 April 2008 | 1459 | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
8º | ![]() | Joan Mesquida Ferrando | 22 April 2008 | 27 July 2010 | 2285 | |
9º | ![]() | Isabel María Borrego | 31 December 2011 | 12 November 2016 | 1778 | Mariano Rajoy |
10º | ![]() | Matilde Asian González | 22 November 2016 | 19 June 2018 | 574 | |
11º | ![]() | Isabel Maria Oliver Sagreras | 19 June 2018 [8] | 15 July 2020 | 757 | Pedro Sánchez |
12º | ![]() | Fernando Valdés Verelst | 15 July 2020 [9] | Incumbent | 801 |
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