Tourism continues to attract employment. Based on mid-year data provided by National Institute of Statistics (INE) and the X-ray released this Monday Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, activities related to this sector gave approximately 391 thousand more jobs between April and June compared to the same period last year. In other words, almost half of the 776,000 people who entered the labor market last year (from the second quarter of 2021 to the same period of 2022) did so. tourism sector.
In total, this area already occupies more than 2.7 million people, slightly higher (0.8%) compared to the same period in 2019, that is, months before the start of the pandemic. This means that 13% of salaried people in Spain work in this sector.
“The labor market continues to show the robustness that the tourism sector is recovering from. stimulates the economy and the national job market“Assures the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Kings Maroto. “Thus, the data reflects an excellent performance in a quarter marked by the uncertainties of the economic consequences of the war. very intense job creation and quality‘, he adds, regarding a growth detected among both employeesself-employed and as both services food and drinkas in accomodationinside Travel Agencies And in passenger transport. And it’s doing this with about 20% more permanent contracts than a year ago, but it’s true that temporary contracts are also 18% larger than last year.
On the other hand, unemployment levels are also showing more positive signs: the unemployment rate in the sector is currently three points lower than before the pandemic (from 11% to 8%) and almost five points lower than the previous year. the economy as a whole, ie at 12.5% according to these data.
“The six autonomous communities with the largest number of tourists (Catalonia, Andalusia, Madrid, Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Valencian Community) are, in turn, the ones that create the most employment in the sector as they represent 74.5% of the total”, Turespanapublic institution responsible for the promotion of the country abroad.
The same agency published a few weeks ago, based on Aena records that Spain received more than 8.2 million international passengers in June, a figure that still does not match pre-pandemic records, but still accounts for 85.5% of travelers visiting the country. Same month of 2019. In fact, this volume more than triples the previous year’s traffic. Also, in this case, according to data from the INE, these are international tourists Almost three times more money (around 9,000 million euros) was spent in the country than in the previous year, but still not as much in the same month (around 9,700 million euros).