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Hotel establishments. By categories

Hotel establishments. Establishments and beds. By categories Catalonia
Establishments Hotels Luxury 5 stars Superior 4 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Hostels or pensions Beds Hotels Luxury 5 stars Superior 4 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Hostels or pensions
2022 3,120 2,059 27 54 111 556 638 355 318 1,061 323,064 297,030 7,963 10,903 30,756 127,537 81,351 22,875 15,645 26,034
2021 3,092 2,037 27 49 111 550 634 352 314 1,055 319,395 293,410 7,963 9,764 30,912 126,221 80,649 22,294 15,607 25,985
2020 3,083 2,028 26 47 106 546 639 351 313 1,055 318,954 292,811 7,445 9,404 29,698 125,995 82,340 22,409 15,520 26,143
2019 3,065 2,017 26 45 102 539 643 348 314 1,048 317,129 291,144 7,445 8,660 29,371 124,031 84,203 22,292 15,142 25,985
2018 3,040 1,990 26 44 95 532 644 343 306 1,050 313,788 287,632 7,420 8,756 27,628 122,012 85,140 21,776 14,900 26,156
2017 3,007 1,964 23 43 88 514 649 339 308 1,043 312,249 286,123 6,167 9,451 26,842 117,448 89,571 22,169 14,475 26,126
2016 2,978 1,931 20 41 80 495 647 342 306 1,047 309,486 283,238 5,535 9,226 25,641 109,559 95,884 22,880 14,513 26,248
2015 2,941 1,901 18 38 75 481 644 341 304 1,040 306,691 280,513 5,239 8,379 23,683 108,121 97,237 22,642 15,212 26,178
2014 2,889 1,859 18 34 63 463 642 342 297 1,030 304,026 277,685 5,999 7,113 21,038 105,492 100,007 23,096 14,940 26,341
2013 2,850 1,815 18 34 48 448 644 337 286 1,035 300,814 273,384 5,955 7,168 18,364 102,189 101,729 23,379 14,600 27,430
2012 2,836 1,761 16 30 33 416 641 339 286 1,075 294,840 265,710 5,865 6,381 14,746 94,107 105,803 23,977 14,831 29,130
2011 2,854 1,727 1 48 17 404 638 332 287 1,127 290,125 259,105 144 13,326 8,400 91,852 106,811 23,610 14,962 31,020
2010 2,825 1,695 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 48 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 404 617 339 287 1,130 286,949 255,784 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 13,199 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 95,122 108,507 24,045 14,911 31,165
2009 2,800 1,652 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 39 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 389 605 335 284 1,148 282,126 250,166 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 11,262 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 91,958 108,435 23,823 14,688 31,960
2008 2,735 1,580 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 36 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 350 576 335 283 1,155 270,832 238,347 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 10,572 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 80,026 109,186 24,028 14,535 32,485
2007 2,671 1,496 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 31 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 304 551 324 286 1,175 261,548 227,960 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 10,036 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 70,875 108,431 23,496 15,122 33,588
2006 2,624 1,434 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 25 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 284 537 307 281 1,190 259,120 224,939 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 9,227 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 67,202 109,355 23,209 15,946 34,181
2005 2,591 1,376 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 20 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 253 516 308 279 1,215 253,438 218,361 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 7,810 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 61,848 107,164 25,003 16,536 35,077
2004 2,570 1,332 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 18 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 221 503 306 284 1,238 247,893 211,666 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 6,372 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 55,183 107,092 25,903 17,116 36,227
2003 2,614 1,281 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 18 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 199 486 298 280 1,333 244,237 205,172 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 6,372 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 49,484 106,345 25,875 17,096 39,065
Source:
2003-2019: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.
2020-2022: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Labour.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: July 25, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hotel establishment
Commercial establishment for public use for accommodating people in transit in a place; they offer, at a price, collective accommodation with or without complementary services. Includes both hotels and pensions.
Pension
Establishment that offers accommodation in rooms with or without complementary services, in the form of hire, but that, both due to size and structure and the characteristics and types of services, do not come to the same level as that of a hotel. There are three categories, which are identified by silver stars. Boarding houses and hostels also included.
Hotel place
Place occupied by a person in a hotel establishment. The number of places equals the number of fixed beds in the establishment. Double beds are counted as two places; supplementary beds are not taken into account.

Methodological aspects

Tourist establishments are disaggregated into hotel establishments, camp sites and rural tourism establishments, according to their category and capacity.

The information presented herein is fundamentally structural and focused on tourist offering. Given the characteristics of this sector, the information has been clustered for certain municipalities.

Until 1994 the source for this data was the General Directorate of Tourist Companies and Activities, belonging to the Ministry of Transportation, Tourism and Communications. Since 1995, the General Directorate of Tourism, belonging to the Ministry for Business and Labour of the Generalitat de Catalunya, has been in charge of publishing data on the registry of tourist establishments: hotel establishments, camp sites, rural tourism establishments and housing for tourists' use.

Until year 2003, Terres de l'Ebre tourism brand was included in Costa Daurada and Val d'Aran formed part of the Pirineus. At the end 2011, the Catalan Tourism Agency approved the creation of a new tourism brand called Costa Barcelona. This region includes the territory of the former Costa del Garraf and Costa de Barcelona-Maresme.

In 2015, two changes were made to the tourism brands, approved by the Catalan Tourist Board. The first change is that the counties El Vallès Oriental and El Vallès Occidental, which used to be a part of the Catalunya Central brand, as of 2015 will come under the Costa Barcelona brand. The second change is to the name of the brand: Catalunya Central will now be known as Paisatges de Barcelona.

On the occasion of the creation of El Moianès county, the municipalities of Castellcir, Castellterçol, Granera and Sant Quirze Safaja (which were part of the Costa Barcelona brand), from 2015 they become part of Paisatges de Barcelona brand.

Thus Catalonia is divided into 9 tourism brands:

  • Barcelona: Barcelonès.
  • Costa Brava: Alt Empordà, Baix Empordà, Gironès, Pla de l'Estany i Selva.
  • Costa Daurada: Alt Camp, Baix Camp, Baix Penedès, Conca de Barberà, Priorat i Tarragonès.
  • Costa Barcelona: Alt Penedès, Baix Llobregat, Garraf, Maresme, Vallès Occidental i Vallès Oriental.
  • Paisatges Barcelona: Anoia, Bages, Moianès i Osona.
  • Pirineus: Alt Urgell, Alta Ribagorça, Berguedà, Cerdanya, Garrotxa, Pallars Jussà, Pallars Sobirà, Ripollès i Solsonès.
  • Terres de Lleida: Garrigues, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell, Segarra, Segrià i Urgell.
  • Terres de l'Ebre: Baix Ebre, Montsià, Ribera d'Ebre i Terra Alta.
  • Aran: Val d'Aran.

Until 2011, the territorial disaggregation by tourism brands was calculated using special estimators for small areas. This methodology does not guarantee that the total amount is exactly the same as the result for the whole of Catalonia using the traditional estimator. However, the discrepancies are of little significance.

The new county of El Moianès was created on 1 May 2015 (Law 4/2015, of 23 April, on the creation of the county of El Moianès) from the aggregation of five municipalities of the county of El Bages, one from the county of Osona and four from the county of El Vallès Oriental.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".