Exceltur has just published its tourism outlook report for the summer and closing of 2023. The Spanish tourism sector will increase its sales by 10.9% in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period of 2019, in the pre-pandemic. Galicia’s growth is above the general rate, growing by 17.6%.
In this evolution, companies and leisure facilities (growing by 13.4%) and hotels (with 12.2% more) are the establishments that present the greatest perspective of improvement in their sales. Passenger transport companies (+7.4%), rental companies (+8.2%) and large groups of travel agencies (+8.8%) also improved, but with less intensity.
By destination, it is estimated that the communities with the highest growth are the Balearic Islands (+25.8%), Asturias (+23%) and the Basque Country (+21.2%). Galicia ranks as the sixth most dynamic community in sales forecast for the summer, with 17.6%, ahead of destinations such as Andalusia (+17.5%), the Valencian Community (+15.5%) or the Canary Islands ( +15.4%).
Another of the data that Exceltur approaches in its report is that tourism will equal this year the contribution of the GDP of 2019, up to 12.6%. The tourism entity revised its estimate of nominal tourism GDP to 178,831 million euros, 13.6% more than the 2019 level.
Tourism employment
The Exceltur report also highlights the creation of more and better jobs in June, with growth of 6% and 126,815 new members of Social Security. The contractual temporary rate in tourist activities reached historical lows, 7.9%, half the Spanish average (14.3%) with data from the month of June.
There is a greater presence of full-time permanent contracts, representing 39.9% of tourism employment, while part-time permanent contracts make up 27.2% of the total tourism, and discontinuous permanent 24.3%.