TOURISM, A FABULOUS FONT OF JOBS IN SPAIN!
Tourism-related employment continues to grow in Spain, adding almost 100,000
new Social Security contributors in the month of October 2024
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In October, contributors linked to tourism activities increased in absolute terms by 98,845 people, reaching a total figure of more than 2.75 million workers. This represents an increase of 3.7% over the same month last year. About the labor market of the country as a whole, which grew by 2.1% year-on-year this month, tourism employment accounts for 13.1% of the total number of registered workers.
The change in contributors was also positive in all branches of tourism in October. In hotels and catering, the increase was 57,342 contributors (22,056 in accommodation services and 35,286 in food and beverage services), and in travel agencies and tour operators it increased 2,983 workers. Other tourism activities also recorded an overall increase of 38,520 employees.
Wage earners increase by 4.3%
In October, the number of employees in the tourism sector increased by 4.3% compared to the same month of the previous year, representing 81.9% of the total number of contributors in this sector.
Tapas bar in Granada, southern Spain
By branch of activity, salaried employment increased in tour operators (4%) and in hotels and restaurants (4.1%), and within the latter, it increased by 6.5% in accommodation services and by 3.3% in food and beverage services.
Self-employment in tourism, which represents 18.1% of the total number of contributing workers, increased by 1 %. Travel agencies recorded a year-on-year increase of 5.9%.
Employment grows in the Canary Islands and Andalusia
Employment in hotels and catering and travel agencies and tour operators as a whole increased in all Autonomous Communities in October, except in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
In absolute figures, the highest increase was in Andalusia, while compared to the same month in 2023, the highest increases were in the Canary Islands (4.8%), Andalusia (4.6%) and Cantabria (4.1%).
Source: La Moncloa Goobierno de España
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Images
Featured image (Andalusian fair–night scene)/american_rugbier, CC BY-SA2.0, Flickr
Tapas bat/Antonio zugaldia, cc by2.0, Flickr
