[4] The first minister responsible was Hernán Lombardi, but his tenure – as well as the ministry's existence – was cut short by the resignation of De la Rúa and his entire government less than two months later on 20 December 2001.

[5] The tourism and sports portfolios were downgraded to a number of secretariat-level agencies of different ministries (chiefly Culture) by the following presidencies until 2010, when it was reinstated to ministerial level by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who appointed Carlos Enrique Meyer at the helm of the Ministry of Tourism.

[7] The ministry was dissolved on December 10, 2023, following a presidential decree by President Javier Milei,[3] and restructured as a secretariat under the supervision of the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers.

[citation needed] In the aftermath of the Argentina national football team's win in the 2024 Copa América final in July 2024, Milei's administration announced that Julio Garro ceased to be the undersecretary of sport because he said that the Argentina team's captain, Lionel Messi, and the AFA president, Claudio Tapia, should apologize for offensive chants.

[9] From 2019 to 2023, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports was organized into the following centralized dependencies:[10][11] Additionally, a number of decentralized dependencies also report to the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, including the National Institute for the Promotion of Tourism (Instituto Nacional de Promoción Turística; Inprotur),[12] the National Antidoping Commission (Comisión Nacional Antidopaje, CNAD),[13] and the National Agency for High Performance in Sports (Ente Nacional de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo, ENARD).