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• Galicia is the sixth community with the most dynamic sales forecast for this summer period.
• Companies, leisure facilities and hotels are those that represent one of the greatest prospects for improvement.

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%.