Miguel Torruco Marqués

He became national president of the National Tourism Confederation (CNT), a coordinating body of tourism in Mexico, which groups 160 associations, unions, chambers, unions and organizations representing companies. Since 2012, he is the Secretary of Tourism of the Federal District, after the Mayor of Mexico City, Miguel Angel Mancera, invited him to lead this sector in the Mexican capital.

He also took over as national president of the Mexican Association of Hotels and Motels for 2000–2004. Over these four years, he consolidated and unified organization going from 60 to 100 associations affiliates around the country, and even did transcend internationally to preside over and to found the Latin American Confederation of Hotels and Restaurants (Flahr) and also assume the Vice President for Latin America of the International Hotel and Restaurant Association (IHRA).

He also demonstrated great leadership as President of the Alumni Associations of Tourism and the Mexican Academic Special Tourism (AMECAPT) centers, thus forging a solid foundation for entering the international level, since in 1991 he founded the Pan American Confederation of Schools of Hotel, Gastronomy and Tourism (CONPEHT), same that presided from this date to 1994 and represents the most prestigious educational institutions in 26 countries, from Canada to Argentina; also includes Spain.

He has also written five diagnoses on tourism, highlighting "Formulation bases for the National Tourism Plan 1982-1988". In addition, he has lectured in 36 countries; and has received numerous awards throughout his 43 years of professional life.

Miguel Torruco Marqués (September 19, 1951 in Mexico City) is an entrepreneur, academic and Mexican public official. He was the Secretary of Tourism of the Federal District from 2012 to 2017. In 2017, he became a Tourism Adviser of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of National Regeneration Movement (MORENA).