Accommodation sector employment
RecordSTO-X4FQ7PBCSW-9927KAWZ3S-K58PY7
European Union · 2021
Accommodation sector employment in the European Union was more than 2.1 million in 2021 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- In 2021, the tourism industries employed over 11.2 million people in the EU
- Retrieved
- 22 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
The accommodation sector (not including real estate) accounted for more than 2.1 million jobs in the EU; travel agencies and tour operators accounted for 0.4 million.
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APA
Statistical Office of the European Union. (2021). Tourism industries - employment. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Tourism_industries_-_employment. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_X4FQ7PBCSW9927KAWZ3SK58PY7
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- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Tourism industries - employment." 2021, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Tourism_industries_-_employment. Accessed 22 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_X4FQ7PBCSW9927KAWZ3SK58PY7.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Tourism industries - employment." 2021. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Tourism_industries_-_employment. Accessed September 22, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_X4FQ7PBCSW9927KAWZ3SK58PY7.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2021accommodationk58py7, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Tourism industries - employment}, year = {2021}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_X4FQ7PBCSW9927KAWZ3SK58PY7}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Tourism\_industries\_-\_employment. Accessed September 22, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Tourism industries - employment
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- In 2021, the tourism industries employed over 11.2 million people in the EU
- Retrieved
- 22 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_X4FQ7PBCSW9927KAWZ3SK58PY7