“It should shake” 2025 will not be the year of recruitments for companies in the Pyrénées-Orientales

When questioned in the coming year, apart from the construction sector whose activity should remain identical, the 300 companies surveyed in the department expect a positive development of their turnover for what is services and industry sectors. On the other hand, in terms of staff, this revival of activity “will have no impact”, notes the departmental director who provides “recruitments which will remain limited, see negative in the industry”.

In the Pyrénées-Orientales, the construction industry holds a prominent place in terms of economic activity but the departmental director of the Banque de France notes that “the expected revival will concern in particular the second work”, the orders for the structural work Having all been consumed and the increase in interest rates that did not relaunch projects.

Prepare for the summer season now

It is therefore in another heavy goods vehicle sector that a lot of hope is for: tourism. “The winter season is already excellent and the post-Jo years have the reputation of being fast,” says Laurent Gauze, the president of the CCI of the Pyrénées-Orientales. The first reserve indicators communicated by Gîtes de France seem to prove it right with a level of reservations for July higher than that of July 2024. If it is necessary to prepare for the summer season now, the department does rather well according to him, Particularly with the opening in 2024 “of four four and five stars hotels, which had not happened for thirty years! ».

Another sector to follow, that of trade, whose president of the consular chamber greets efforts to federate. As for the industry, Laurent Gauze recalls that the area covered by Perpignan Mediterranean Métropole, Sud Roussillon, Albères-Côte Vermeille Illibéris and Vallespir is labeled Industry Territory: “This activity is generating jobs over a longer time, Communities must get more involved and we should pass the 20,000 industrial jobs within four or five years, “against 16,000 today.