According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), during the first quarter of 2022, the sector of artistic, entertainment and recreational activities reported a growth of 36.2%. These, added to household activities, together contributed 1.14 percentage points to the variation of the total national GDP, which stood at 8.5%.
However, when we disaggregate the item of artistic and entertainment activities, we find that the Dane lists five important sub-branches.
In first place are gambling and betting activities, which weighed 42% in that entire heading; followed by sports and recreational activities (soccer games, amusement parks and social clubs) which took 10%.
"It is important to remember that the pandemic brought us a practice of online gambling and betting that has had a very large growth throughout the last quarters.
Particularly in the first quarter of 2022, the activities of games of chance grew at a rate of 57%", stated Juan Daniel Oviedo, general director of the Dane.
Likewise, the category of personal services (for example, everything related to wellness and hairdressing services) stands out with a weight of 37% of the sector.
Another category is everything related to creative and cultural activities (concerts and shows), which accounted for approximately 3%. Finally, activities generated by associations, guilds and cooperatives accounted for 8%.
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