Grandvalira Resorts Hires 2,346 Seasonal Workers for Winter

Grandvalira Resorts has hired 2,346 seasonal workers for the coming winter season and is providing accommodation for close to 53% of its total staff, the ski group's marketing director, David Ledesma, said during the presentation of the winter campaign on Monday.

The group's workforce is settled at 2,919 employees, of whom 2,346 are seasonal and about 573 are on permanent contracts. Ledesma said the roster is closed, though the company remains open to bringing in "a few more specific profiles."

He described the housing effort as a multi-million-euro undertaking and said it will have to continue for years given the difficulty of finding decent housing in Andorra. Grandvalira Resorts has relied on agreements with hotels and the rental of tourist apartments while studying longer-term options such as building its own accommodation.

The presentation also reviewed results from previous campaigns. According to figures from the Department of Statistics, tourist numbers rose 2.4% last season compared with 2024-2025, while overnight stays increased 7.5%, averaging 3.3 nights per visitor. Officials pointed to the consolidation of tourism over the past decade at the expense of excursionists: in the 2015-2016 season, 59% of visitors were day-trippers and 41% were tourists, a ratio that has since reversed, with tourists accounting for 59% of visitors in 2025-2026.

The origin of visitors has also shifted. French tourists fell 10.7%, while Spanish visitors rose 1.5%. Other markets now account for 13.3% of the total, up 117% from a decade ago, with the largest share coming from the Americas and Brazil the single biggest source country, posting growth of 390%.

Ledesma had said weeks earlier that seasonal-worker accommodation has become a budget item worth millions that barely existed five years ago, a point he reiterated in describing the scale of the investment required to house staff.