Ministry of Information and Tourism

Ministry of Information and Tourism
Ministerio de Información y Turismo
Agency overview
Formed20 July 1951
Dissolved5 July 1977
Superseding agency
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Spain

The Ministry of Information and Tourism (Spanish: Ministerio de Información y Turismo) was a ministerial department of the Government of Spain created in 1951 during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to control information and the censorship of press and radio.[1][2] The ministry also assumed the management of Tourism, an important industry at that time when it had an important flowering. In historiography, some authors consider it as a simple Ministry of Propaganda.[3]

  1. ^ Edward Laprade, Douglas (2005). Censura y recepción de Hemingway en España. University of Valencia. p. 68.
  2. ^ "Decreto-ley de 19 de julio de 1951 por el que se reorganiza la Administración Central del Estado" (pdf). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (201). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado: 3446. 20 July 1951. ISSN 0212-033X.
  3. ^ Cazorla-Sánchez, Antonio (2014). Franco: The Biography of the Myth. Routledge. p. 133. ASIN B0170LIEM2.