The Mexican Secretary of Tourism ( es, Secretaría de Turismo, ''SECTUR'') is the
government department
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in charge of the nation's tourism promotion and development.
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The department conducts the development policy for national tourist activity and promotes tourist development zones in conjunction with the states.
List of secretaries
* President
Luis Echeverría
Luis Echeverría Álvarez (; 17 January 1922 – 8 July 2022) was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who served as the 57th president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Previously, ...
** (1975–1976) : Julio Hirschfeld Almada
* President
José López Portillo
José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 t ...
** (1976–1980) :
Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
** (1980–1982) :
Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla
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* President
Miguel de la Madrid
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (; 12 December 1934 – 1 April 2012) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 59th president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.
Inheriting a severe economic an ...
** (1982–1988) :
Antonio Enríquez Savignac
* President
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Carlos Salinas de Gortari CYC DMN (; born 3 April 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician who served as 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), earlier in his career he wor ...
** (1988–1990) :
Carlos Hank González
** (1990–1993) :
Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
Pedro Joaquín Coldwell (born August 5, 1950 in Cozumel, Quintana Roo) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
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Joaquín Coldwell studied law at the Universidad Iberoamer ...
** (1993–1994) :
Jesús Silva Herzog Flores
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* President
Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (; born 27 December 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was 61st president of Mexico from 1 December 1994 to 30 November 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from t ...
** (1994–1997) :
Silvia Hernández Enríquez
Silvia Hernández Enríquez (born 1948) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as Secretary of Tourism from December 1994 to December 1997.
Political career
Hernández, an active PRI membe ...
** (1997–2000) : Óscar Espinosa Villarreal
* President
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elec ...
** (2000–2003) :
Leticia Navarro
Bertha Leticia Navarro Ochoa (born November 10, 1953 in Colima, Colima) is a Mexican entrepreneur who served as Secretary of Tourism in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox.
Navarro holds a bachelor's degree in administration from the National A ...
** (2003–2006) :
Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
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Elizondo Torres holds a bachelor's degree in administration from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM).
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* President
Felipe Calderón
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 1 December 2006 to 30 November 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 a ...
** (2006–2010) :
Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
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Elizondo Torres holds a bachelor's degree in administration from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM).
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** (2010–2012) :
Gloria Guevara Manzo
Gloria Guevara Manzo (born September 1, 1967) is a business executive with experience in the private and public sectors. She was Secretary of Tourism for Mexico from March 10, 2010 to November 30, 2012. Guevara began her professional career at ...
* President
Enrique Peña Nieto
Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...
** (2012–2015) :
Claudia Ruiz Massieu
Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, (born 10 July 1972) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs following her appointment by President Enrique Peña Nieto in ...
** (2015–2018) :
Enrique de la Madrid Cordero
Enrique Octavio de la Madrid Cordero (Mexico City, born 1 October 1962) is a lawyer, a public official, a columnist and Mexican politician. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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He is the son of Paloma Cordero, f ...
* President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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** (2018–present) :
Miguel Torruco Marqués
Miguel Torruco Marqués (September 19, 1951 in Mexico City) is an entrepreneur, academic and Mexican public official.
He was the Secretary of Tourism of the Federal District from 2012 to 2017. In 2017, he became a Tourism Adviser of Andrés Ma ...
See also
*Government of Mexico
The Federal government of Mexico (alternately known as the Government of the Republic or ' or ') is the national government of the United Mexican States, the central government established by its constitution to share sovereignty over the republi ...
References
External links
Official Website of TourismOfficial site of the President's Cabinet
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Tourism
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Mexico
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Tourism
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