Those affiliated in tourism activities account for 12.1% of the total number of affiliates in the national economy.
Reyes Maroto “Even before an extraordinary Easter week, tourism employment is close to full recovery in March two years after the biggest crisis in its history”
Madrid: Employment in tourism in March was close to the pre-pandemic level, with 2,388,910 affiliated with Social Security, representing 99.4% of the registrations that were in the sector in the same month of 2019, according to data published Tuesday (Apr 19) by Turespaña. Affiliates in tourism activities account for 12.1% of the total number of affiliates in the national economy.
“The vigorous recovery of tourism that is taking place in our country is having a first direct and immediate impact on employment. Even before an extraordinary Easter Week, the sector’s affiliation reached pre-pandemic levels in March and nearly 330,000 jobs have been created in tourism activities in the last year, which confirms the good moment that tourism is experiencing. If in the previous financial crisis tourism employment took six years to recover, today we are close to pre-pandemic levels two years after the worst crisis that the sector has faced in its entire history, which has been possible, among other things, thanks to the shield of protection for workers and companies deployed by the Government and the successful vaccination process,” said the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto.
Branches of activity
The variation in affiliates was positive in all tourism branches: hospitality increased by 241,724 affiliates (165,301 in food and beverage services and 76,423 affiliates in accommodation services); other tourism activities increased by 85,135 affiliates, while in travel agencies there was an increase of 2,356 workers.
Self-employment in accommodation services (up 7.6%) and in travel agencies and tour operators (up 3.4%) also grew (with respect to March 2019).
By Autonomous Communities
In the month of March 2022, employment in hospitality and travel agencies/tour operators as a whole increased in all Autonomous Communities. The Autonomous Community of Valencia, Andalusia and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla already exceeded the absolute number of affiliates in hospitality and travel agencies/tour operators in March 2019. In the case of the Valencian Community, it closed March with 180,151 registrations in the aforementioned subsectors (+1,309 registrations than in 2019); Andalusia, with 279,483 (+381 more) and Ceuta and Melilla together, with 3,783 (+48).
