Direction générale du tourisme (1927 - 1965)

Direction générale du tourisme (1927 - 1965), part of the Commissariat général au tourisme, was an office within the Ministère des travaux publics, des transports et du tourisme tasked with promoting France to potential foreign tourists, an important part of France's postwar economic recovery. France's tourist promotion bureaucracy has undergone several reorganizations, eventually falling under the Ministère du Commerce, de l'Artisanat et du Tourisme, now simply named the Ministère du Commerce.