Balearic tourism jobs rise 12.5% as self-employment falls

Mallorca, in Spain’s Balearic Islands, has no separate figure in a new tourism jobs report: across the islands, employment reaches 228,218 in the third quarter of 2026, up 12.5% from a year earlier. The Spanish Ministry of Industry and Tourism released the figures on Monday, 9 November, based on the Labour Force Survey.

The rise is uneven. The ministry reports 216,146 salaried tourism workers across the islands, up 18.7% on a year earlier. The number of self-employed workers falls 35.5% to 15,589. The figures do not show how many of those jobs are on Mallorca.

Across Spain, tourism employment rises 5.4% to 3.25 million. Jobs in hospitality grow 4.9%, with increases in both accommodation and food and drink services. Travel agencies show a 2.6% fall, but the ministry says a change in how businesses are classified explains that figure, not an actual drop in jobs.

Topics: Jobs & labour · Tourism

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com