espanolEste trabajo analiza la contribucion directa del turismo al crecimiento economico mediante una expansion de la metodologia propuesta por Ivanov y Webster (2007) utilizando datos de la Cuenta Satelite de Turismo para 2012-2013. Dicha expansion permite desagregar al sector turistico en sus diferentes ramas caracteristicas y medir la contribucion individual que cada una de ellas tiene sobre el crecimiento economico en Colombia. Los resultados evidencian la importancia del sector turistico para la economia colombiana donde las ramas caracteristicas con mayor dinamismo fueron los servicios de suministro de comidas y bebidas; servicio de transporte terrestre; servicios inmobiliarios y de alquiler de vivienda. EnglishOne of the most revised and discussed topics on Tourism Economics are the way in which the tourism industry contributes to both growth and development of the economy of a country. In a seminal work, Ivanov and Webster (2007) came up with a methodology to measure the contribution of tourism to the economic growth that uses per capita GDP growth rate as an economic growth measure disaggregating it in the part generated by the touristic activities and that generated by other industries. Various authors have used the methodology suggested by Ivanov and Webster applying it to different countries. However, all of the works have considered as “tourism” what can be classified as the representative sector of this activity: hotels and restaurants. Currently, the development of the Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA) have permitted to have a better accounting of the touristic activities in many countries, which leads to the need of new measures of the contribution that this sector has on economic growth. This work aims to measure