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Working Conditions in Spain's Tourism Sector: Precariousness and Exhausting Working Hours
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Spain has been one of the nations that have benefited most from European solidarity through the Next Generation EU Funds. Thanks to the EU support, managed here through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, our country has been able to take advantage of its geostrategic, tourism and business infrastructure to emerge in terms of growth. However, these numbers that adorn the macroeconomics do not correspond to the reality that microeco…
Nearly 18% of Spanish workers could not afford a week’s vacation in 2023, despite being employed. This is indicated by an analysis by the European Institute of Trade Unions (ETUI) based on Eurostat microdata. The figure, which exceeds by three points the European average (15%), reflects an increase of 2.7% over the previous year and places Spain among the countries with the highest incidence of what has been called “holiday poverty”. The phenome…
Tourism industry forecasts confirm that it will continue to be one of the main engines of the Spanish economy. Companies expect an increase in their sales of...
Working conditions in Spain's tourism sector: precariousness and exhausting working hours
In several regions of Spain, as in other European countries, tourism seems to have reached a turning point. Although the discontent with mass tourism in coastal areas or cities such as Barcelona has been intensifying over the last decade, it was not until in 2024 that historic demonstrations were held in places such as the Canary Islands, Cadiz, Malaga and Catalonia. At the same time, around 50 citizen platforms emerged and, in September 2024, j…
Óscar Perelli, Executive Vice President of Exceltur, warns about the normalization of the sector after exceptional years, although it maintains growth forecasts
Tourism maintains its economic strength in Spain, but in view of the increase in geoeconomic complexity, it is forced to moderate its prospects. Thus, and despite the fact that tourism GDP has accelerated its growth to 3.6% during the second quarter of the year –as opposed to 3.2% recorded in the same period of 2024–, it remains below what initially expected (4%), as confirmed on Thursday Exceltur, which, moreover, has anticipated that it will l…
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