Tourism and public policy in Argentina after the Law 25.997/05

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the argentinian tourism policy based on the application of the National Tourism Law 25.997/05. Starting from a documentary study, the analysis focuses on the reorientation of tourism policy occurred in 2005. Since then, national state intervention regarding the national touristic system has been widely modified. Nowadays, over a decade later, the law in which tourism is structured seems not to respond to the increasingly chaotic, challenging, and disorderly scenario. Consequently, this article makes a comprehensive overview, identifying successes and failures as well as the scopes and limits of the national public policy of this complex activity in constant transformation and redefinition.