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The Mexican Secretary of Tourism (, ''SECTUR'') is the
government department Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level Executive (government), executive bodies in the Machinery of government, machinery of governments that manage a specific se ...
in charge of the nation's tourism promotion and development.Official Website of Tourism
/ref> The Secretary is appointed by the
President of the Republic The President of the Republic is a title used for heads of state and/or heads of government in countries having republican form of government. Designation In most cases the president of a republic is elected, either: * by direct universal s ...
and is a member of the federal executive cabinet. 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 ...
** (1976–1980) : Guillermo Rossell de la Lama ** (1980–1982) : Rosa Luz Alegría Escamilla * 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 Antonio Enríquez Savignac (born August 17, 1931 in Mexico City–d. February, 2007) was a Mexican politician who served as Secretary of Tourism (Mexico), Secretary of Tourism in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid and as Secretary-Ge ...
* President
Carlos Salinas de Gortari Carlos Salinas de Gortari (; born 3 April 1948) is a Mexicans, Mexican economist, historían and former politician who served as the 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994. Considered the frontman of Mexican Neoliberalism by formulating, p ...
** (1988–1990) : Carlos Hank González ** (1990–1993) : Pedro Joaquín Coldwell ** (1993–1994) :
Jesús Silva Herzog Flores Jesus ( AD 30 or 33) was a Jewish preacher and religious leader who most Christians believe to be the incarnation of God and Muslims believe was a prophet. Jesus may also refer to: People Religious figures * Elymas Bar-Jesus, a Jew in the ''Ac ...
* President
Ernesto Zedillo Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (; born 27 December 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was the 61st president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Re ...
** (1994–1997) : Silvia Hernández Enríquez ** (1997–2000) :
Óscar Espinosa Villarreal Óscar Espinosa Villarreal (born 23 November 1953) is a Mexicans, Mexican former politician who served as the List of mayors of Mexico City, Mayor of Mexico City from 1994 to 1997 and Mexico's Secretariat of Tourism, Secretary of Tourism from 1997 ...
* 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 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the Nat ...
** (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 ...
** (2003–2006) :
Rodolfo Elizondo Torres Rodolfo Elizondo Torres (born July 18, 1946) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN. Elizondo Torres was born in Durango, and holds a bachelor's degree in administration from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education ( ...
* President
Felipe Calderón Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (; born 18 August 1962) is a Mexican politician and lawyer who served as the 63rd president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012 and Secretary of Energy during the presidency of Vicente Fox between 2003 and 2004. ...
** (2006–2010) :
Rodolfo Elizondo Torres Rodolfo Elizondo Torres (born July 18, 1946) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN. Elizondo Torres was born in Durango, and holds a bachelor's degree in administration from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education ( ...
** (2010–2012) : Gloria Guevara Manzo * President
Enrique Peña Nieto Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican former politician and lawyer who was the 64th president of Mexico from 2012 to 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he p ...
** (2012–2015) : Claudia Ruiz Massieu ** (2015–2018) :
Enrique de la Madrid Cordero Enrique Octavio de la Madrid Cordero (Mexico City, born 1 October 1962) is a Mexican lawyer, public official, columnist and politician. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Biography He is the son of Paloma Cordero, forme ...
* President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican former politician, political scientist, public administrator and writer who served as the 65th president of Mexico from 2018 to 2024. He se ...
** (2018–2024) :
Miguel Torruco Marqués Miguel Torruco Marqués (born 19 September 1951) 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 Manuel López ...
* President
Claudia Sheinbaum Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, energy and climate change scientist, and academic who has served as the 66th president of Mexico since 2024. She is the List of elected and appointed female heads of state and ...
** (2024–present) : Josefina Rodríguez Zamora


See also

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Government of Mexico The Federal government of Mexico (alternately known as the Government of the Republic or ' or ') is the national government of the Mexico, United Mexican States, the central government established by its constitution to share sovereignty over the ...


References


External links


Official Website of TourismOfficial site of the President's Cabinet
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Tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...
Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
Tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...
Tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...
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