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Tourist accommodations. Establishments and beds. By type. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Tourist accommodations. Establishments and beds. By type. Counties, areas and provinces 2012
Establishments Beds
Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total
Alt Camp 9 1 49 59 448 150 412 1,010
Alt Empordà 207 34 149 390 14,508 38,283 1,248 54,039
Alt Penedès 22 0 71 93 742 0 565 1,307
Alt Urgell 44 9 81 134 1,638 2,505 570 4,713
Alta Ribagorça 48 5 72 125 2,024 1,110 438 3,572
Anoia 13 1 60 74 689 90 381 1,160
Bages 32 3 86 121 1,348 481 630 2,459
Baix Camp 71 19 34 124 8,767 26,727 275 35,769
Baix Ebre 34 6 41 81 2,758 4,575 263 7,596
Baix Empordà 185 44 78 307 14,896 60,684 659 76,239
Baix Llobregat 89 2 1 92 9,829 3,042 4 12,875
Baix Penedès 39 4 15 58 4,506 4,374 117 8,997
Barcelonès 580 0 0 580 69,007 0 0 69,007
Berguedà 50 19 135 204 1,242 6,738 1,232 9,212
Cerdanya 64 7 52 123 2,912 4,524 363 7,799
Conca de Barberà 23 2 39 64 923 1,284 296 2,503
Garraf 63 6 4 73 5,382 8,526 48 13,956
Garrigues 9 0 10 19 253 0 74 327
Garrotxa 42 17 126 185 1,032 3,915 1,043 5,990
Gironès 50 2 44 96 2,946 738 380 4,064
Maresme 164 30 16 210 33,490 18,921 113 52,524
Montsià 32 5 30 67 1,585 2,400 301 4,286
Noguera 22 3 44 69 646 1,437 331 2,414
Osona 50 9 132 191 2,019 3,141 1,167 6,327
Pallars Jussà 20 5 60 85 712 1,794 476 2,982
Pallars Sobirà 60 21 98 179 2,864 7,674 684 11,222
Pla d'Urgell 8 0 14 22 227 0 138 365
Pla de l'Estany 13 4 90 107 346 2,016 762 3,124
Priorat 20 3 48 71 289 1,023 415 1,727
Ribera d'Ebre 15 2 14 31 450 333 102 885
Ripollès 63 13 119 195 2,119 4,263 872 7,254
Segarra 9 0 46 55 245 0 309 554
Segrià 33 1 8 42 2,963 111 57 3,131
Selva 257 25 53 335 43,172 23,586 462 67,220
Solsonès 25 5 104 134 701 2,307 660 3,668
Tarragonès 128 25 10 163 40,219 32,232 73 72,524
Terra Alta 16 3 22 41 584 561 191 1,336
Urgell 10 0 35 45 412 0 287 699
Val d'Aran 109 9 16 134 6,418 3,069 148 9,635
Vallès Occidental 49 0 3 52 5,792 0 28 5,820
Vallès Oriental 59 8 48 115 3,737 2,805 398 6,940
Catalonia 2,836 352 2,157 5,345 294,840 275,419 16,972 587,231
Metropolità 941 40 68 1,049 121,855 24,768 543 147,166
Comarques Gironines 817 139 659 1,615 79,019 133,485 5,426 217,930
Camp de Tarragona 251 50 180 481 50,646 61,416 1,471 113,533
Terres de l'Ebre 97 16 107 220 5,377 7,869 857 14,103
Ponent 91 4 157 252 4,746 1,548 1,196 7,490
Comarques Centrals 157 36 457 650 5,310 12,667 3,689 21,666
Alt Pirineu i Aran 345 56 379 780 16,568 20,676 2,679 39,923
Penedès 137 11 150 298 11,319 12,990 1,111 25,420
Barcelona 1,164 75 546 1,785 133,043 42,796 4,477 180,316
Girona 863 145 698 1,706 81,200 136,503 5,725 223,428
Lleida 422 62 611 1,095 20,068 22,461 4,325 46,854
Tarragona 387 70 302 759 60,529 73,659 2,445 136,633
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry for Business and Labour.

Last update: January 2, 2014.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Campsite
Area of delimitated land that has been equipped and conditioned for use by people, on a regular basis and by paying a stipulated price, to use an area for living in the open air for a set period of time, for holidaying or tourism purposes and using as a residence mobile shelters such as caravans, tents or other similar elements that are easily transported. They are classified into four categories: luxury, first, second and third class.
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.
Campsite place
Space occupied by a person in a tent, mobile shelter or caravan.
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.
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.

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 "..".