The hospitality industry in both countries has a decisive weight in the generation of employment. In the case of Spain, more than 1.7 million people are employed in the more than 300,000 hotel establishments, with a total of 328,000 workers in Portugal. In both cases the hospitality industry is a sector of introduction to the labor market for many people, with great flexibility, an important weight of women (in both countries, almost 51% of the workers in bars, restaurants and cafeterias are female ).