In this article, we analyze the dynamics of temporary workers’ transitions into permanent contracts for
workers related to the tourism industry. For this purpose, we use an administrative retrospective dataset
from Spanish Social security records. Results show that while individuals with a weaker attachment to the
tourism industry achieve open-ended contracts sooner than in most other industries, on the contrary, it
takes more time to those with a greater attachment to the tourism industry to exit from the temporary
status. In addition, we find that for workers substantially engaged in the tourism industry, it takes more
time to reach an open-ended contract when they have held between six and ten contracts in the past (as
opposed to holding only one previous contract). On the contrary, for individuals with a weaker attachment
to the tourism industry, holding between two and ten previous contracts implies a quicker exit from
temporality
