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The "Services survey" operation provides information about the economic structure of various sub-sectors of the services sector in the Basque Country and in each province, contributes to the preparation of Economic Accounts and Input-Output Tables and enables the calculation of macro-magnitudes of the sector. The information is provided by establishments whose exclusive or main activity is included in one of a wide range of categories within the National Classification of Economic Activities relating to services.

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Professional Activities and Auxiliary Services recorded growth of 9.1% and turned over 11,336 million euros in the Basque Country in 2023 (05/14/2025)

Reference period > PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AUXILIARY SERVICES 2023

Last update > 05/14/2025

Next update: > 05/30/2025

Turnover (thousand €) Professional and business services (2023)

11,335,908

Personnel employed. Professional and business services (2023)

134,588

Turnover (thousand €) Hospitality (2023)

4,246,766

Personnel employed. Hospitality (2023)

62,190

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Press releases
Professional Activities and Auxiliary Services recorded growth of 9.1% and turned over 11,336 million euros in the Basque Country in 2023 (05/14/2025)	05/14/2025
The Hospitality sector in the Basque Country records the best result in the historical series in 2023, after a growth of 19.2% (03/19/2025)	03/19/2025
The turnover figure for Ancillary Transport Activities and employment in Computing were the activities in the Sundry Services sector with the highest growth in 2022 in the Basque Country (06/28/2024)	06/28/2024
Professional and business services topped 10 thousand million euros in turnover in 2022 for the first time in the Basque Country (06/06/2024)	06/06/2024
In 2022, the Hospitality sector in the Basque Country achieved the best financial year result in its history, with a rise of 21.7% (05/15/2024)	05/15/2024
Record turnover for the Basque Country’s Sundry Services sector: more than 9,000 million euros in 2021 (07/26/2023)	07/26/2023
The Professional and Business Services sector recovered part of the loss suffered during the pandemic and its turnover was up 7.8% in the Basque Country in 2021 (07/13/2023)	07/13/2023
The turnover of the Hospitality sector in the Basque Country grew by 33.9% in 2021, but did not regain pre-pandemic levels (06/29/2023)	06/29/2023
Turnover in the Sundry Services sector stood at 7,730 million in 2020, down 11.8% on 2019 (08/04/2022)	08/04/2022
Turnover in the Professional and Business Services sector stood at 8,641 million in 2020, down 13.6% on 2019 (07/18/2022)	07/18/2022
After eight years of uninterrupted growth, the pandemic brought about a 47.4% drop in turnover for hospitality in the Basque Country in 2020 (06/08/2022)	06/08/2022
Computing activities employed over 15,000 people in 2019 in the Basque Country and turned over 1,435 million euros (07/21/2021)	07/21/2021
The Professional and Business Services sector employed almost 132,000 people in 2019, 12.6% of the total (06/21/2021)	06/21/2021
In the Basque Country, 64,000 people worked in Hospitality in 2019, 6.1% of the total (06/02/2021)	06/02/2021
The turnover of the Professional and Business Services sector in the Basque Country grew by 8.5% in 2018 (10/24/2018)	10/24/2018
In 2016 the net turnover figure for the Hotel Management & Catering sector in the Basque Country registered growth of 7.7% (07/30/2018)	07/30/2018
The Professional Activities and Auxiliary Services sector employed 115,760 of those employed in the Basque Country in 2014, which is 11.8% of the total (08/10/2016)	08/10/2016
The professional activities and auxiliary services sector employed 114,854 of those employed in the Basque Country in 2013, which is 11.9% of the total (07/30/2015)	07/30/2015
The turnover figure for Hotel Management & Catering rose by 2.3% in 2013 (06/30/2015)	06/30/2015
Computing activities employed 13,000 people in 2012 and represented 1.25 billion euros in turnover in the Basque Country (09/17/2014)	09/17/2014
94% of the companies engaged in professional and business activities in the Basque Country possessed fewer than 10 employees and accounted for 44% of the total turnover in 2012 (07/16/2014)	07/16/2014