THE RURAL TOURISM IN THE NATIONAL POLICY OF ARGENTINA

Abstract

In the last 20 years, in Argentina, there was an unstable institutionalization of Tourism in national politics. Disorderly, little continuous actions have been developed and also with little executable planning to the territorial need that has arisen over that time. This work tries to investigate the different institutional strategies of Argentina, framed in public policies in relation to the institutionalization and development of Rural Tourism (RT). An exhaustive search of secondary information based on publications of books, magazines and articles detailing the state of the art, both in print and digital form, was carried out. A discontinuous policy has been found in the establishment of Tourism as a strategic economic sector in Argentina, without activity specificity. In Rural Tourism, there was a lack of establishment and central institutionalization in the national government entities. Yes, there were a number of strategies institutionally planned by government bodies that, added to the effort and vision of municipal and community territorial organizations, contributed to respond to the demand in the development and installation of Rural Tourism in Argentina. The contributions of civil society actors that contribute to the development of the activity in different regions are not included in this stage of the study.