Ministry of Tourism (Uruguay)

The Ministry of Tourism (Spanish: Ministerio de Turismo, MINTUR) of Uruguay is a ministry of the Government of Uruguay that is responsible for guiding, stimulating, promoting, regulating, researching and controlling tourism and activities and services directly related to it.

This department of government promotes in the tourist activity the approaches of gender, ethnic-racial, sexual diversity, disability.

[1] The Ministry is headquartered in the Rambla 25 De Agosto in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo.

The current Minister of Tourism is Tabaré Viera, who has held the position since August 23, 2021.

In 1986, after the Civic-Military Dictatorship, by means of Law Nº 15.851 the Ministry of Tourism was created.