RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Tourism in Brazil generated a net 24,902 formal jobs in the 12 months ending in October of this year, an increase of 330 percent over the immediately preceding 12 months, which ended in October 2018.
The data are from the National Confederation of Trade in Goods, Services and Tourism (CNC) survey, based on data from the General Registry of Employees and Unemployed (CAGED), released yesterday, December 20th.
In October, Brazilian tourism generated a net 1,630 formal jobs, totaling 2,962,951 workers in tourism services.
Of the total 39,178,133 employees registered with a signed worker’s record book in all productive activities in the month, the stock of tourism workers represented 7.6 percent, according to the CAGED.
The president of the CNC, José Roberto Tadros, said the balance reflects the sector’s upturn in line with the gradual improvement of the country’s economy.
“Much of the positive performance of the tourism labor market, pronounced in the second half of this year, reflects price stability, with declining inflation, lower interest rates and the favorable impact of the release of the FGTS (Severance Premium Reserve Fund) on consumption, in addition to the dollar’s stability for most of the period,” Tadros said in a statement.
With respect to the distribution of occupation in October, accommodation and catering concentrated more than 1.9 million employees, some 66.1 percent of the sector’s workforce, followed by passenger transport, with 833,200, or 28.1 percent of the total.
Cultural and leisure activities and travel agents together accounted for 5.7 percent.
According to the CNC economist behind the research, Antonio Everton, employment in tourism has also been influenced by the increase in demand for activities linked to traditional cultural and leisure services, as well as airline transport.
Source: Agência Brasil