The month of May closed with 2,608,600 Social Security affiliates linked to tourist activities, which represents
an increase of 23.3% in the number of affiliates in this sector compared to May 2021
and a record level of affiliation for this month.
This is reflected in the data released this Monday by Turespaña, which indicates that the tourism sector had
409,615 more affiliates at the end of May than a year earlier
and 32,962 more than in the same month of 2019.
In addition, affiliates in tourist activities represent
12.9% of the total number of affiliates in the national economy
and 44% of the jobs created in May, reports Servimedia.
The Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism,
Reyes Maroto,
stressed that "the intense recovery of the tourism sector is generating a strong increase in Social Security affiliation in the labor market, which exceeded
2.6 million affiliates in May, the highest level in the history series in a month of May".
"This has been possible thanks to the effective social shield deployed by the Government during the pandemic to keep our workers and companies in the tourism sector on their feet and to the high levels of vaccination of the Spanish population," he added, to also add below that " Thanks to the labor reform, higher quality employment is being created.
Thus, the minister assured that "we are starting the summer season with good prospects despite the complex context resulting from the war in Ukraine" and that "
tourism will be one of the sectors that will contribute most to economic recovery
and the generation of employment this year.
DATA
Employment increased in all branches of activity in the last year.
The hotel industry gained 306,413 affiliates
(183,448 in food and beverage services and 122,965 in accommodation services);
travel agencies registered 5,662 new workers and the group of other tourist activities registered an increase of 97,540 affiliates.
Salaried workers, who represent 81% of the total in the sector, increased by 23.3% compared to the same month last year, while the self-employed grew by 2.2%.
By autonomous communities, employment in the hotel industry and travel agency/tour operator sectors as a whole increased in all of them compared to last year.
In absolute figures, the greatest increases occurred in the Balearic Islands, Andalusia, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, the Canary Islands and Madrid.
In relative terms, the interannual increase in the Balearic Islands stood out, of 81.6%.
Comparing the data with the same month of 2019, Andalusia, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, the Valencian Community, Murcia and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla have more Social Security affiliates than before the covid pandemic -19
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