Spain is the world's second-most-visited country, and unusually, it owns the industry that serves those visitors: Meliá, Barceló, RIU and Iberostar are all headquartered in Palma de Mallorca, running hundreds of hotels worldwide from Spain. Around the hotel groups sits a travel economy that hires year-round — eDreams ODIGEO and HBX Group (Hotelbeds) in travel tech, Amadeus powering airline and hotel bookings globally from Madrid, and newer companies like Indie Campers on the road-travel side.
Hospitality is one of the few sectors where not speaking Spanish can be workable from day one: resort and front-office roles on the islands and the coast often ask for English first, with German, French or Dutch as the differentiator, and hiring peaks between February and May as the season staffs up. The corporate side is a different market — revenue management, ecommerce, marketing and finance roles at the Palma, Madrid and Barcelona headquarters — and pays more like the general corporate market. One honest gap: Iberostar's careers site is not yet indexed, so its openings don't appear here yet.