It is not enough to continue arguing that tourism
is intensive in generating employment.
It is accepted that this activity be polysemous
and convergent not only demand more jobs
compared with other activities, but this is
diversified and specific job skills.
The production chain requiring competitive
tourism product associated companies
whose size are part of the so-called informal economy. Many times these are concomitant
with informal employment.
This informal employment is associated with
vulnerable conditions, no social security, no
desirable employment benefits with less formal
income, among other limitations.
This document discusses what is called the
participation of informal employment in
Colombia’s tourism sector and how it is tending
to the formalization of the companies
that still carry out their activities based on the
status of informal or “non-legal”.