Tuesday, 28 December 2021 03:14

BCR reports that artistic services grew by 120.3% and technology services by 24.6%.

Written by Evelyn Alas

The President of the Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador (BCR), Douglas Rodríguez, informed in an interview that, in the first quarters of 2021, there was a growth in artistic and entertainment services of 120.3%.

He said that, by not having closures to mobility, artistic and recreational services have remained active.

He also emphasized that transportation and storage had a growth of 31.6 % and professional, scientific and technological services grew by 24.6 %.

Rodriguez stated that another of the activities that has marked the growth in this third quarter is restaurants and hotels, which so far have received more than 300 thousand tourists, with a growth of 50.8 %.

He said that the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (ISSS), has registered to date 69,000 more jobs than the ones they had in february 2020, when they began to fall, as a result of the pandemic.

He also said that El Salvador has managed to position itself in the fifth level of Latin American countries with the highest economic growth.