O turismo é un sector esencial e estratéxico da economía nacional. Como se desprende deste traballo, a intervención directa do Estado mediante a explotación e xestión de redes hoteleiras xustifícase, como no caso de calquera empresario privado, na obtención de rendibilidadee. Pero non só nisto. Tamén na promoción turística de lugares que malia a súa beleza son pouco rendibles para a iniciativa privada, así como na defensa do patrimonio cultural español.
Tourism is an essential an strategical sector of the national economy. As it is argued in this article, direct intervention from the State towards the exploitation and management of hotel networks is justified, as it is the case with any other private entrepreneur, in securing rentability. But it is not only this. Besides, it is justified by the turist promotion of places that despite their beauty are not very profitable for private initiative as well as the defense os Spanish cultural heritage. The network of paradores respond to these aims, which, in spite of changes introduced in its regulation, constitutes the most clear exponent of a turism of quality in our country, articulated on the basis of the restoration of monumental real state and the promotion of natural and cultural heritage.