MEXICO TOURISM BOARD

The Mexico Tourism Board, is a company of Majority State Participation, that has as object the design and operation of the strategies of tourist promotion at national and international level, with the participation of the diverse actors of the tourist activity.

By initiative of the Commission of Tourism of the House of Representatives, the different parliamentary fractions unanimously approved the Project of Reforms and Additions to the Federal Law of Tourism, for the creation of this organization.

The functions assigned to the new organization are the following ones:

> To help in the design of the plans, programs, strategies and priorities in the matter of tourist promotion;

> To provide, by any means, tourist information specialized the national and foreign tourists; To provide inherent goods or services to its object;

> To obtain complementary, economic, technical and material resources, for the development of its object;

> To foment, with the participation of the sectors public and prevailed, all tourist type of activities that promote the attractiveness and services of the country;

> To subscribe agreements with the governments of the Federal Organizations and Municipalities, with state and municipal mixed organisms, and with the private sector (national and foreign), with the purpose of orchestrating campaigns of tourist promotion;

> To celebrate agreements of tourist cooperation with governmental organs and international organizations in order to promote tourist to the country;

> To make works and studies of market relative to the fulfillment of its objectives