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Rural tourism. Establishments and beds. By categories. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Rural tourism. By establishments. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2022
Shared country house Independent country house Masia Farm Total
Alt Camp 2 24 7 28 61
Alt Empordà 24 55 31 49 159
Alt Penedès 9 31 10 42 92
Alt Urgell 10 48 8 32 98
Alta Ribagorça 19 52 1 1 73
Anoia 3 34 6 38 81
Aran 8 11 0 0 19
Bages 1 10 9 57 77
Baix Camp 8 17 8 11 44
Baix Ebre 1 8 9 41 59
Baix Empordà 18 20 22 52 112
Baix Llobregat 0 1 0 2 3
Baix Penedès 3 9 1 3 16
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 0
Berguedà 3 10 9 144 166
Cerdanya 16 26 5 16 63
Conca de Barberà 4 30 7 5 46
Garraf 0 0 3 3 6
Garrigues 2 3 0 4 9
Garrotxa 5 8 34 93 140
Gironès 4 2 17 40 63
Maresme 0 3 8 13 24
Moianès 2 4 4 20 30
Montsià 3 9 5 14 31
Noguera 8 31 5 17 61
Osona 3 22 20 97 142
Pallars Jussà 19 35 6 3 63
Pallars Sobirà 24 75 1 3 103
Pla d'Urgell 0 3 2 8 13
Pla de l'Estany 6 12 17 73 108
Priorat 8 28 4 7 47
Ribera d'Ebre 7 16 2 7 32
Ripollès 6 30 19 92 147
Segarra 4 27 4 15 50
Segrià 0 5 1 5 11
Selva 1 2 18 48 69
Solsonès 0 14 1 110 125
Tarragonès 0 5 1 8 14
Terra Alta 3 14 3 13 33
Urgell 5 24 1 4 34
Vallès Occidental 1 0 1 1 3
Vallès Oriental 1 1 19 40 61
Catalonia 241 759 329 1,259 2,588
Metropolità 2 5 29 61 97
Comarques Gironines 64 129 158 447 798
Camp de Tarragona 22 104 27 59 212
Terres de l'Ebre 14 47 19 75 155
Ponent 19 93 13 53 178
Comarques Centrals 11 80 45 440 576
Alt Pirineu i Aran 96 247 21 55 419
Penedès 13 54 17 69 153
Barcelona 23 111 88 454 676
Girona 73 144 162 465 844
Lleida 106 344 32 203 685
Tarragona 39 160 47 137 383
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Labour.
Rural tourism. By beds. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2022
Shared country house Independent country house Masia Farm Total
Alt Camp 30 191 74 210 505
Alt Empordà 262 427 374 324 1,387
Alt Penedès 83 213 109 338 743
Alt Urgell 120 253 111 187 671
Alta Ribagorça 160 235 14 4 413
Anoia 29 186 57 221 493
Aran 97 91 0 0 188
Bages 5 78 93 432 608
Baix Camp 83 138 70 100 391
Baix Ebre 9 42 85 244 380
Baix Empordà 220 147 290 323 980
Baix Llobregat 0 4 0 25 29
Baix Penedès 30 71 13 31 145
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 0
Berguedà 26 97 117 1,380 1,620
Cerdanya 202 138 65 73 478
Conca de Barberà 29 202 77 47 355
Garraf 0 0 33 34 67
Garrigues 23 32 0 24 79
Garrotxa 53 78 443 622 1,196
Gironès 33 11 197 298 539
Maresme 0 25 90 82 197
Moianès 6 26 44 173 249
Montsià 39 89 67 98 293
Noguera 75 231 54 167 527
Osona 35 167 253 827 1,282
Pallars Jussà 227 207 66 24 524
Pallars Sobirà 250 430 8 14 702
Pla d'Urgell 0 31 17 77 125
Pla de l'Estany 50 102 220 530 902
Priorat 95 181 58 44 378
Ribera d'Ebre 39 96 25 47 207
Ripollès 61 157 250 590 1,058
Segarra 30 177 36 149 392
Segrià 0 39 6 40 85
Selva 14 23 210 440 687
Solsonès 0 72 15 785 872
Tarragonès 0 35 14 46 95
Terra Alta 38 114 29 100 281
Urgell 57 196 11 30 294
Vallès Occidental 14 0 12 4 30
Vallès Oriental 17 12 205 282 516
Catalonia 2,541 5,044 3,912 9,466 20,963
Metropolità 31 41 318 438 828
Comarques Gironines 693 945 1,984 3,127 6,749
Camp de Tarragona 237 747 293 447 1,724
Terres de l'Ebre 125 341 206 489 1,161
Ponent 185 706 124 487 1,502
Comarques Centrals 91 560 539 3,642 4,832
Alt Pirineu i Aran 1,056 1,354 264 302 2,976
Penedès 123 350 184 534 1,191
Barcelona 215 771 1,006 3,756 5,748
Girona 809 1,047 2,039 3,233 7,128
Lleida 1,125 2,067 355 1,510 5,057
Tarragona 392 1,159 512 967 3,030
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Labour.

Last update: July 25, 2023.

TURALL

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Statistics on Tourist Establishments (TURALL).

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Rural tourism
Form of tourism in accommodation located in the rural environment. They tend to be in contact with agricultural operations and buildings built before 1950 in accordance with the architecture of the zone. They have drinking water, electricity, heating, sanitary services and the appropriate furniture. They are classified into four groups: shared country house, independent country house, masia and masoveria.
Rural tourism. Shared country house
Single family house in a population nucleus that the owner shares with tourists and provides accommodation in the form of rooms and at least breakfast.
Rural tourism. Independent country house
Single family house in a population nucleus that provides accommodation services in the form of an entire house.
Rural tourism. Masia
Single family house outside of any population nucleus that the owner shares with tourists and provides accommodation in the form of rooms and at least breakfast.

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.
  • Val d'Aran: 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.

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 "..".