MADRID, 23 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The services sector increased its turnover by 12.9% last January compared to the same month in 2022, expanding the rise registered the previous month by 1.7 points, as reported this Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
With the advance of January, the services chain 23 consecutive months of year-on-year increases after a year of falls as a result of the pandemic.
Commerce invoiced last January 12.5% ??more than in the same month of 2022, while other services increased their sales by 14% year-on-year, especially driven by the hospitality industry (26.8%) and administrative activities , scientific and technical, which raised their turnover by 17.6% year-on-year.
Within the hotel industry, accommodation services increased their sales by 49.3%, while food and beverage services billed 20.1% more than in January 2022.
By activities, the greatest increases in sales were recorded by travel agencies and tour operators (93.5%) and air transport, which increased by 66.5%.
In monthly terms (January 2023 compared to December 2022) and in seasonally and calendar-adjusted data, the services sector registered a monthly decrease in sales of 0.5% at the start of the year, thus already chaining two consecutive months setbacks after the one experienced in December 2022 (-1.1%).
For the twenty-second consecutive month, employment in the services sector grew last January, and it did so at an interannual rate of 1.7%, a rate three tenths lower than that of December.
The Balearic Islands was the community that increased job creation the most in the service sector last January, with an interannual rise of 6.3%, while the Canary Islands was the region that increased sales the most, a 28.3% rate yoy
