The Awakening of Tourism: The Origins of Tourism Policy in Argentina, 1930-1943

PIGLIA, MELINA

Journal of Tourism History

Rutledge

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2011 vol. 3 p. 57 - 74

1755-1838

During the 1920s, in Argentina a series of notions were put into practice according to which tourism was not only a private practice but also, and increasingly, a question of general interest. In the ?30s, these ideas spread widely in the press and public opinion and lead to the construction of tourism as a state policy objective. The work focuses on the early touristic policy, from the construction of roads, to the creation of the National Parks Direction, considered the first location for an attempt at a comprehensive and centralized tourist policy, the attemps to create a national touristic organism, and the early rehearsal of a popular tourism policy.  Some of these intiatives failed, some of them succeded; This work argues taht all of them represent a basic cornerstone for understanding the enthusiastic tourist policy implemented by the Peronist government as from 1945 (and at least until 1950), which consisted largely in centralizing and boosting the different fragments of tourist policy in the 1930s, organized now under the sole premise of the democratization of tourism.