Ministry of Tourism

A tourism ministry is a ministry which, as part of an administrative structure, is in charge of and comprehensive responsibility for tourism policy. This also applies to a leisure ministry with regard to leisure policy . For many countries, tourism and leisure are of great political importance and therefore justify independent ministries as policy fields .

In other countries these two policy fields are not viewed by the administration as sectoral policy, but as a cross-sectional task. Depending on the cut of the object spectra the lead tourist or recreational is political jurisdiction usually the Ministry of Economy , the environmental or culture Ministry assigned. As a rule, other ministries then also perform specific tourism or leisure-policy tasks.

The minister of tourism or leisure minister is the head .

Situation in Germany

As part of the federal division of tasks, the core competence of tourism policy lies with the federal states. In the federal states, the ministries of economics are usually responsible for tourism, for example in Bavaria , North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony , or the economic authority in Hamburg .

The tourism policy of the 16 federal states and the federal government is coordinated in the federal-state tourism committee chaired by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), which meets twice a year. The parliamentary state secretary at the BMWi also acts as the federal government's tourism officer. The BMWi is advised by external experts from a tourism advisory board and harmonizes the interests of private sector actors in particular.

There is no independent tourism ministry in Germany at federal level. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is responsible for tourism policy. This ministry has the objectives of filling the social market economy with life, ensuring sustainable progress and strengthening social cohesion. Tourism is seen as an important part of the German economy. Tourism policy tasks of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy are therefore to positively shape the framework conditions for a good development of tourism in Germany, to maintain relationships with other countries, a. takes place through tourism advertising of the German National Tourist Board and the targeted promotion of the competitiveness of the medium-sized tourism industry. Tourism policy overlaps with the areas of responsibility of other ministries such as B. Environment and Transport.

List of tourism and leisure ministries at national level

country	Ministry	Abbr.	Area of ​​responsibility	minister
Ethiopia	Ministry of Youth, Culture & Tourism	MYSC	Youth , Culture and Tourism	Minister of Tourism
Australia	Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism	RET	Raw materials, energy and tourism	Minister for Tourism
Bahamas	Ministry of Tourism		tourism	Minister of Tourism
Brazil	Ministry of Tourism		tourism	List since 1992
Bulgaria			tourism	Nikolina Angelkova
Burkina Faso	Ministère des Sports et des Loisirs		Sport and leisure	Ministre des Loisirs
Chile	Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Turismo	Minecon	Economy , development and tourism	Ministro de Turismo
Denmark			Economy, development and tourism	Kristian Jensen
Germany	Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy	BMWi	Economy, energy, tourism	Peter Altmaier
Estonia			International relations, tourism	Marina Kaljurand
Finland			Economy, energy and tourism	Olli Rehn
France	Ministère des Affaires étrangères		Tourism, culture	Laurent Fabius
Gambia	Ministry of Tourism & Culture	MOTC	Tourism and culture	Minister of Tourism
Greece	Ipurgeio Anaptixis, Antagonistikotitas kai Nautilias Υπουργείο Ανάπτυξης, Ανταγωνιστικότητας και Ναυτιλίας	ypoian	Tourism, competition and shipping
India	Ministry of Tourism		tourism	Minister of Tourism
Indonesia	Kementerian Pariwisata dan Ekonomi Kreatif	Parekraf	Culture and tourism
Ireland	Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport	DTTS	Transport, tourism, sport	Paschal Donohoe
Israel	Misrad HaTayarut משרד התיירות Ministry of Tourism		tourism	Sar HaTayarut שר התיירות
Italy	Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo	MiBACT	Culture, tourism	Dario Franceschini
Japan	Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism	MLIT		Keiichi Ishii
Canada	Minister of Small Business and Tourism / Ministre de la Petite Entreprise et du Tourisme		Small business and tourism	Bardish Chagger
	Ontario : Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport / Ministère du Tourisme, de la Culture et du Sport	MTC	Tourism, culture and sport	Minister of Tourism / Ministère du Tourisme
	Québec : Ministry of Tourism / Ministère du Tourisme	MTQ	tourism	Julie Boulet
Colombia	ministra de Comercio, Industria y Turismo			Cecilia Álvarez Correa
Croatia	Ministarstvo turizma	MINT	tourism	Ministar turizma
Latvia			Economy, tourism	Dana Reizniece-Ozola
Lebanon	Ministry of Tourism وزارة السياحة		tourism	Minister of Tourism
Liechtenstein			Culture, education, tourism	Aurelia Frick
Lithuania			tourism	Jurgita Kazlayskiené
Luxembourg	ministère de tourisme		tourism
Malta	Ministry for Tourism		tourism	Edward Zammit Lewis
Malaysia	Ministry of Tourism and Culture	MOTAC	Tourism and culture	Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz
Mauritius	Ministry of Tourism		tourism	Minister of Tourism
Mexico	Secretaría de Turismo Secretary of Tourism	SECTURE		Secretario de Turismo
Myanmar	Ministry of Hotels and Tourism		Hotels and Tourism	Without Maung
Namibia	Ministry of Environment and Tourism	MET	Environment and tourism	Minister of Tourism
Netherlands	Minister van Economische Zaken		Economy, communication, tourism	Eric Wiebes
Austria	Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism	BMLRT		Elisabeth Köstinger
Peru	Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo	MINCETUR	Foreign trade and tourism	Ministro de Turismo
Philippines	Department of Tourism Kagawaran ng Turismo	DOT	tourism
Poland	Ministerstwo Sportu i Turystyki		Sport and tourism	Minister Turystyki
Portugal			Economy, tourism	Miguel Morais Leitâo
Romania			Tourism, transport, research	Sevil Shhaideh
Sweden			Tourism, culture	Margot Wallstróm
Switzerland	Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research	WBF	Economy, education, research	Johann Schneider-Ammann
Slovakia			Tourism, culture	Marek Maďarič
Slovenia			Economy, tourism	Zdravko Počivalšek
Spain	Ministro de Industria, Energía y Turismo		Economy, tourism	José Manuel Saria López
Sri Lanka	Minister of Tourism Development and Christian Religious Affairs			John Amaratunga
South Korea	Munhwa Cheyuk Gwangwang-bu 문화 체육 관광부		Culture , sport and tourism
South Africa	Minister of Tourism			Tokozile Xasa
Czech Republic			Tourism, international relations	Lubomir Zaorálek
Turkey	Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı		Culture and tourism	Turizm Bakanları
Uganda	Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities	MTWA		Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities
Hungary			Economy, tourism	Mihály Varga
United Kingdom	Minister for Tourism and Heritage		Tourism and Heritage Minister at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport	Minister for Tourism
Cyprus	Ministry of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism		Economy, energy, tourism	Yiorgos Lakkotrypis

literature

• David L. Edgell, Maria DelMastro Allen, Ginger Smith, Jason Swanson: Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7506-8557-3 .
• Colin Michael Hall: Tourism Planning: Policies, Processes and Relationships. Themes in Tourism Series, 2nd Edition, Pearson Education, 2008, ISBN 978-0-13-204652-7
• Hannes Heller: Does Germany need a Ministry of Tourism? Scenario analysis for a sustainable tourism policy . (PDF) Master's thesis, University of Bremen 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - Authority for Economy, Transport and Innovation Accessed on February 26, 2018
2. ↑ bmwi.de Tourism for the BMWi. Retrieved February 22, 2016
3. ↑ bmwi.de ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Advisory boards at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Retrieved February 22, 2016 
4. ↑ bmwi.de Tourism Policy Report of the Federal Government. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
5. ↑ bmwi.de economic factor tourism Germany. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
6. ↑ Ministry of Youth, Culture & Tourism, mysc.gov.et ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ethiopian Government website; accessed on February 22, 2016. 
7. ↑ tourism.government.bg Ministry of Tourism Bulgaria; accessed on February 22, 2016.
8. ^ Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Turismo Ministry of Economic Affairs Chile; accessed on February 22, 2016
9. ↑ um.dk ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Foreign policy Denmark; accessed on February 22, 2016 
10. ↑ bmwi.de Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy; accessed on February 22, 2016
11. ↑ valitsus.ee ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Foreign policy Estonia; accessed on February 22, 2016 
12. ↑ tem.fi ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ministry of Economy and Labor Finland; accessed on February 22, 2016 
13. ^ Diplomatie.gouv.fr foreign policy France; accessed on February 22, 2016
14. ↑ dttas.ie Ministry of Tourism Ireland; accessed on February 22, 2016
15. ↑ beniculturali.gov.it Ministry of Tourism, Italy; accessed on February 22, 2016
16. ↑ em.gov.lv Ministry of Tourism Latvia; accessed on February 22, 2016
17. ↑ regierung.li ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Liechtenstein Ministry of Culture; accessed on February 22, 2016 
18. ↑ tourism.lt Ministry of Tourism Lithuania; accessed on February 22, 2016
19. ↑ gouvernement.lu ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Luxembourg Ministry of Tourism; accessed on February 22, 2016 
20. ↑ tourism.gov.mt Malta Ministry of Tourism; accessed on February 22, 2016
21. ^ Government.nl Foreign Policy of the Netherlands; accessed on February 22, 2016
22. ^ Portugal.gov.pt Ministry of Tourism Portugal; accessed on February 22, 2016
23. ↑ government.se Ministry of Tourism Sweden; accessed on February 22, 2016
24. ↑ admin.ch Ministry of Economic Affairs Switzerland; accessed on February 22, 2016
25. ↑ old.culture.gov.sk ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ministry of Culture Slovakia; accessed on February 22, 2016 
26. ↑ mgrt.gov.si ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ministry of Tourism Slovenia; accessed on February 22, 2016 
27. ↑ minetur.gob.es Ministry of Tourism Spain; accessed on February 22, 2016
28. ↑ mzv.cz Foreign Policy Czech Republic; accessed on February 22, 2016
29. ↑ kormany.hu Ministry of Economy, Hungary; accessed on February 22, 2016
30. ↑ mcit.gov.cy ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ministry of Tourism Cyprus; accessed on February 22, 2016