In October, the number of people affiliated with 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% compared with the same month the previous year. In relation to the labour market of the country as a whole, which in that month grew by 2.1% year-on-year, tourist employment accounts for 13.1% of the total number of affiliated workers.
The variation in enrolment was also positive in all branches of tourism in October. In hotels and catering, the increase was 57,342 (22,056 in accommodation services and 35,286 in food and beverage services) and in travel agencies it reached 2,983 workers. The rest of the tourism activities also registered a joint increase of 38,520 employees.
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Wage earners increase by 4.3%.
In October, the number of wage earners in the tourism sector increased by 4.3% with respect to the same month of the previous year and represents 81.9% of the total number of affiliated workers in this sector.
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 affiliated workers, increased by 1%. In travel agencies, a year-on-year increase of 5.9% was observed.
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 the Autonomous Communities in October except in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
In absolute figures, the largest increase was in Andalusia, while in comparison with the same month in 2023 the largest increases were in the Canary Islands (4.8%), Andalusia (4.6%) and Cantabria (4.1%).