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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 and Aran, areas and provinces 2015
Establishments Beds
Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total
Alt Camp 6 1 56 63 408 159 455 1,022
Alt Empordà 215 33 155 403 15,053 35,184 1,311 51,548
Alt Penedès 21 0 82 103 676 0 659 1,335
Alt Urgell 41 8 87 136 1,486 2,625 613 4,724
Alta Ribagorça 47 5 71 123 1,832 1,110 416 3,358
Anoia 12 1 75 88 650 90 462 1,202
Aran 108 9 16 133 6,429 3,069 159 9,657
Bages 28 3 68 99 1,252 504 483 2,239
Baix Camp 72 18 37 127 11,308 23,664 322 35,294
Baix Ebre 35 4 45 84 2,626 4,119 289 7,034
Baix Empordà 190 44 103 337 15,460 59,511 897 75,868
Baix Llobregat 83 2 1 86 10,076 3,042 4 13,122
Baix Penedès 34 4 16 54 4,377 4,374 135 8,886
Barcelonès 704 0 0 704 77,525 0 0 77,525
Berguedà 53 19 157 229 1,301 7,992 1,440 10,733
Cerdanya 57 7 55 119 3,007 4,524 385 7,916
Conca de Barberà 21 2 40 63 841 1,284 320 2,445
Garraf 64 6 4 74 5,428 8,526 47 14,001
Garrigues 9 0 9 18 253 0 74 327
Garrotxa 44 17 134 195 1,152 3,993 1,097 6,242
Gironès 50 2 48 100 2,931 738 407 4,076
Maresme 157 30 20 207 32,722 18,921 152 51,795
Moianès 7 1 26 34 137 390 227 754
Montsià 31 5 32 68 1,540 2,400 300 4,240
Noguera 22 3 52 77 645 1,464 406 2,515
Osona 46 9 127 182 1,861 3,141 1,144 6,146
Pallars Jussà 19 5 60 84 726 1,794 462 2,982
Pallars Sobirà 60 21 103 184 2,847 7,674 717 11,238
Pla d'Urgell 7 0 16 23 217 0 151 368
Pla de l'Estany 15 3 102 120 390 1,812 816 3,018
Priorat 20 3 44 67 279 951 380 1,610
Ribera d'Ebre 14 2 15 31 402 333 110 845
Ripollès 62 14 139 215 2,224 4,809 1,019 8,052
Segarra 10 0 52 62 270 0 385 655
Segrià 32 1 7 40 2,984 111 56 3,151
Selva 246 26 66 338 42,659 22,632 614 65,905
Solsonès 24 5 124 153 669 2,307 820 3,796
Tarragonès 131 25 16 172 41,156 32,619 111 73,886
Terra Alta 16 3 20 39 578 561 167 1,306
Urgell 10 0 36 46 406 0 296 702
Vallès Occidental 51 0 3 54 6,034 0 28 6,062
Vallès Oriental 67 7 48 122 3,874 2,415 401 6,690
Catalonia 2,941 348 2,367 5,656 306,691 268,842 18,737 594,270
Metropolità 1,064 40 78 1,182 130,253 24,768 641 155,662
Comarques Gironines 822 139 747 1,708 79,869 128,679 6,161 214,709
Camp de Tarragona 250 49 193 492 53,992 58,677 1,588 114,257
Terres de l'Ebre 96 14 112 222 5,146 7,413 866 13,425
Ponent 90 4 172 266 4,775 1,575 1,368 7,718
Comarques Centrals 159 36 533 728 5,240 13,944 4,279 23,463
Alt Pirineu i Aran 332 55 392 779 16,327 20,796 2,752 39,875
Penedès 128 11 140 279 11,089 12,990 1,082 25,161
Barcelona 1,286 75 603 1,964 141,305 44,073 4,968 190,346
Girona 860 145 785 1,790 82,138 131,697 6,453 220,288
Lleida 415 61 658 1,134 19,733 22,608 4,727 47,068
Tarragona 380 67 321 768 63,515 70,464 2,589 136,568
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Knowledge.

Last update: June 1, 2016.

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 "..".