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  • Tourism | 2/11/2025

    Sustainable tourism, a strategy for the future

    Sustainable tourism has become the overarching strategy for developing the tourism sector worldwide. It strives to balance the economic, social and environmental benefits of tourism to minimise its negative impact on the destinations, distribute the benefits and contribute to a more sustainable future of the sector. Spain, as a benchmark in global tourism, has assumed the challenge of fostering growth in sustained and sustainable tourism.

  • Tourism | 2/7/2025

    The Ministry extended by up to one year the deadline for energy efficiency projects and circularity in tourism enterprises

    These actions, worth €119.6 million, are financed with aid from the Ministry of Industry and Tourism through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan Projects will be launched in 3,400 establishments in the tourism sector to develop actions that boost their competitiveness and allow them to reduce their carbon footprint and energy costs The formula for distributing these funds by territories was agreed at the Tourism Sector Conference in December 2023

  • Tourism | 2/7/2025

    The tourism sector closes the year with 2.9 million employees, 9.7% more than in 2023

    In the fourth quarter of 2024 there are 259,992 more employees in tourism activities than in the same quarter in 2023 The number of employees in the tourism sector with permanent contracts increased by 13.4%, the fourteenth consecutive increase The seasonality rate in the tourism sector was 14.5%, significantly lower than that of the third quarter of 2023, which was 16.5%. The Autonomous Communities of Valencia, Madrid and Catalonia were the communities with the largest growth in the number of people employed.

  • Industry | 2/6/2025

    Industry is meeting with the association of operators of Ultra-High-Speed Recharge (AORU) to promote the deployment of the sector in Spain

    The meeting was part of the government's policy of turning Spain as a hub of mobility in europe and this is working with manufacturers and installers of points in new investment and aid via the PERTE VEC, along with incentives to the purchase of electric vehicles.

  • Industry | 2/5/2025

    The Ministry of Industry awarded €40.6 M to seven PERTE Chip projects

    With this PERTE, whose second call has earmarked €200 million in two aspects, the government strives to strengthen the design and production capacities of the microelectronics and semiconductor industry in Spain from a holistic perspective. The Autonomous Community of Valencia, with its companies VLC Photonics and Ipronics, is the autonomous community to have received the most support.

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