Estado, Turismo y Peronismo. Agencias expertas y políticas públicas en Tucumán (1946- 1955)

Peronist rhetoric placed tourism as a key element for the full realization of the lives of workers. Inserted in this discursive mesh, tourism was the object of public actions aimed at its democratization. Thus, the objective of this article is to analyze the tourism territorialization policies focused on the hotel facet and the deployment of summer villas and the role of expert agencies through their capacities and limits, in the province of Tucumán during the years of the Peronist governments (1946 and 1955). The article aims to "de-center" the State from a double point of view. On the one hand, it search to obtain a more comprehensive view of the country since the recent history of tourism has focused on the analysis of the more traditional destinations such as Mar del Plata and Córdoba. Secondly, it seeks to recover the specificity of the State at its provincial level, as long as this does not constitute a mechanical reflection of the national State. For this, a qualitative analysis of public documents such as official bulletins, parliamentary session diaries, written press of the time of provincial and regional rank, as well as State sources of specialized departments, was carried out.