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Galicia added 7,400 more workers in this sector last July.

The recovery in tourism activity in recent months has once again had a direct impact on job creation in the sector. The latest data from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, corresponding to last July and released by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, show that the number of workers affiliated to Social Security in the sector in Spain as a whole has increased by 143,524 people (5.6%) compared to the same month in 2021.

This growth was particularly marked in the area of hotels and catering, with 198,000 more affiliates, which offset the decline recorded in the area of other tourism activities (60,000 fewer affiliates), while travel agencies and tour operators experienced a slight increase of 5,000 affiliations.

This general improvement in employment in the tourism sector occurred in all the autonomous communities, placing Galicia as the seventh territory in job creation in the tourism sector with 7,427 more affiliates than in July 2021, being surpassed only by Andalusia, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, the Valencian Community and Madrid.

The year-on-year variation in Galicia was 9 % more, with a total of 90,101 workers affiliated in the hotel and catering sector and travel agencies and tour operators in July this year, which represents 4.7 % of the national total of workers in these sectors. Almost all of the new registrations correspond to salaried workers, while the number of self-employed workers affiliated in Galicia suffered a small decrease of 0.5%.