Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (SEDI)

Department of Economic Development 

Ministerial Meetings

With the entry into force of the 1993 “Protocol of Managua” that amended the OAS Charter and established in 1996 the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), as the main political body for development in the Organization of American States, the existing inter-American Congresses were invited to hold their meetings at the ministerial level within the framework of the sectoral meetings of CIDI. In 2011, the General Assembly adopted resolution AG/RES. 2639 (XLI-O/11) that abolished the Organization Plan of the Inter-American Travel Congresses and resolved that they should be convened as the Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-Level Authorities of Tourism” starting with the XX Congress.

The Technical Secretariat for the Congress of Ministers and High-level Authorities on Tourism, as well as the Inter-American Committee on Tourism is the Department of Economic and Social Development

* XXV Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-level Authorities of Tourism
October 6, 2021 - Virtual (Paraguay)

* XXIV Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-level Authorities of Tourism
March 21-22, 2018 - Georgetown, Guyana

* XXIII Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-level Authorities of Tourism
September 3-4, 2015 - Lima, Peru

* XXII Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-level Authorities of Tourism
September 3-4, 2014 - Bridgetown, Barbados

* XXI Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-level Authorities of Tourism
September 5-6, 2013 - San Pedro Sula, Honduras

* XX Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-level Authorities of Tourism
September 12-13, 2012 - Quito, Ecuador

* XIX Inter-American Travel Congress
September 29-30, 2011 - El Salvador, San Salvador