Public policies and tourism development in Spain in the first third of the twentieth century

Abstract

In the configuration of the tourist systems, the Administration constitutes an agent of special importance, together with the private actors themselves. For this reason, this chapter intends to analyse which were the official national agencies of Spanish tourism, studying the tourism policies they carried out, as well as the degree of satisfaction that these policies generated in the aforementioned private actors. To do this, we start from the hypothesis that these policies were not really satisfactory and that, at the time when Spain was incorporated into the birth of modern tourism, with the birth of the first Spanish tourism system, these private actors saw their expectations lowered regarding of state action.