Millions of men and women across the world are cheating on their partners and spouses. While this is nothing new, what has changed is the number of services that are available to help people cover their tracks.
This booming infidelity business is making inroads in the Spanish market, where there are 11,, marriages and de facto relationships, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics INE , and that is without counting the unregistered relationships. This sector includes everything from dating apps with millions of users around the world, to love hotels that sell discretion by the hour, tools to delete incriminating messages, and even private detectives.
Created in in Canada, Ashley Madison is the most popular platform for straying partners , with 60 million registered members in 53 countries. Ashley Madison currently has 1. Ashley Madison made its entrance in Spain in with a controversial billboard in downtown Madrid featuring a photo of former king Don Juan Carlos next to Prince Charles and former US president Bill Clinton, with the slogan: They should have used Ashley Madison.
But Ashley Madison is not the only platform in the cheating industry. But the French website Gleedon claims it is the first site that is designed especially for women: Gleedon launched in Spain in The Spanish market is now its third-biggest in Europe, behind France and Italy. It is not just the cheating sites that are big business in Spain.
Love hotels, where couples pay for a room by the hour, have also taken off in the country. All of these establishments rent rooms by the hour. As well as shampoo, guests are offered complimentary condoms and heart-shaped chocolates. The company Luxtal, with hotels in Madrid and Barcelona, tell guests to call the front desk to find out whether the coast is clear: A love hotel can be up to three times more profitable than a traditional hotel.
