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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 2018
Establishments Beds
Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total
Alt Camp 6 0 58 64 408 0 469 877
Alt Empordà 231 33 156 420 14,673 35,322 1,320 51,315
Alt Penedès 22 0 92 114 710 0 742 1,452
Alt Urgell 42 8 88 138 1,448 2,625 594 4,667
Alta Ribagorça 45 5 72 122 1,796 1,080 413 3,289
Anoia 14 1 80 95 695 90 472 1,257
Aran 112 9 18 139 6,905 3,069 183 10,157
Bages 28 3 67 98 1,073 504 490 2,067
Baix Camp 70 18 36 124 11,770 23,664 323 35,757
Baix Ebre 34 4 51 89 2,495 4,119 319 6,933
Baix Empordà 200 45 116 361 15,639 61,965 984 78,588
Baix Llobregat 84 2 3 89 10,452 3,042 29 13,523
Baix Penedès 34 4 16 54 4,390 4,200 144 8,734
Barcelonès 755 0 0 755 83,071 0 0 83,071
Berguedà 51 19 154 224 1,235 7,992 1,455 10,682
Cerdanya 61 7 60 128 3,209 4,524 437 8,170
Conca de Barberà 20 2 41 63 791 1,284 328 2,403
Garraf 66 6 4 76 5,477 8,526 47 14,050
Garrigues 7 0 8 15 90 0 66 156
Garrotxa 46 17 134 197 1,183 3,966 1,103 6,252
Gironès 55 2 65 122 3,032 738 518 4,288
Maresme 158 30 20 208 32,856 18,876 161 51,893
Moianès 8 1 29 38 147 390 244 781
Montsià 32 5 32 69 1,544 2,400 295 4,239
Noguera 22 3 52 77 646 1,455 406 2,507
Osona 49 9 140 198 1,940 3,141 1,230 6,311
Pallars Jussà 18 5 62 85 707 1,794 503 3,004
Pallars Sobirà 59 21 101 181 2,834 7,674 695 11,203
Pla d'Urgell 7 0 13 20 217 0 130 347
Pla de l'Estany 14 3 109 126 393 1,623 882 2,898
Priorat 21 3 46 70 309 951 402 1,662
Ribera d'Ebre 14 2 19 35 402 333 141 876
Ripollès 65 14 145 224 2,396 4,824 1,027 8,247
Segarra 10 0 47 57 265 0 360 625
Segrià 32 1 7 40 2,814 111 61 2,986
Selva 250 27 67 344 42,927 23,019 640 66,586
Solsonès 26 6 124 156 705 2,319 843 3,867
Tarragonès 130 25 13 168 41,134 32,988 87 74,209
Terra Alta 16 3 24 43 578 561 195 1,334
Urgell 9 0 33 42 383 0 282 665
Vallès Occidental 50 0 3 53 6,176 0 30 6,206
Vallès Oriental 67 8 60 135 3,873 2,739 477 7,089
Catalonia 3,040 351 2,465 5,856 313,788 271,908 19,527 605,223
Metropolità 1,116 41 92 1,249 136,450 25,047 753 162,250
Comarques Gironines 861 141 792 1,794 80,243 131,457 6,474 218,174
Camp de Tarragona 247 48 194 489 54,412 58,887 1,609 114,908
Terres de l'Ebre 96 14 126 236 5,019 7,413 950 13,382
Ponent 87 4 160 251 4,415 1,566 1,305 7,286
Comarques Centrals 163 37 545 745 5,120 13,956 4,421 23,497
Alt Pirineu i Aran 337 55 401 793 16,899 20,766 2,825 40,490
Penedès 133 11 155 299 11,230 12,816 1,190 25,236
Barcelona 1,344 76 644 2,064 147,410 44,352 5,298 197,060
Girona 904 147 834 1,885 82,778 134,475 6,818 224,071
Lleida 415 62 651 1,128 19,779 22,581 4,708 47,068
Tarragona 377 66 336 779 63,821 70,500 2,703 137,024
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: July 9, 2019.

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 "..".