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Hotel establishments. By categories. Tourism brands

Hotel establishments. By categories. Tourism brands 2009
Hotels
5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Total Hostels and pensions Total
Establishments 39 389 605 335 284 1,652 1,148 2,800
Barcelona 20 123 100 37 32 312 224 536
Central Catalonia 0 28 43 17 16 104 88 192
Costa Brava 8 89 176 90 85 448 275 723
Costa Daurada 2 60 81 34 34 211 95 306
Costa de Garraf 2 30 33 30 18 113 57 170
Costa de Barcelona-Maresme 0 17 62 17 9 105 58 163
Pireneus-Prepirineus 2 17 62 64 54 199 219 418
Terres de l'Ebre 1 8 15 16 9 49 41 90
Terres de Lleida 1 6 13 11 16 47 50 97
Val d'Aran 3 11 20 19 11 64 41 105
Beds 11,262 91,958 108,435 23,823 14,688 250,166 31,960 282,126
Barcelona 8,841 28,873 12,749 3,144 1,872 55,479 5,731 61,210
Central Catalonia 0 3,899 4,132 877 444 9,352 2,261 11,613
Costa Brava 861 17,155 33,287 7,643 6,403 65,349 9,191 74,540
Costa Daurada 342 25,262 24,252 1,841 1,098 52,795 2,394 55,189
Costa de Garraf 622 6,723 3,611 1,952 833 13,741 1,560 15,301
Costa de Barcelona-Maresme 0 5,435 22,422 2,706 500 31,063 2,171 33,234
Pireneus-Prepirineus 98 1,077 3,963 3,006 1,828 9,972 5,325 15,297
Terres de l'Ebre 18 1,288 1,468 694 430 3,898 1,008 4,906
Terres de Lleida 80 855 949 724 818 3,426 1,274 4,700
Val d'Aran 400 1,391 1,602 1,236 462 5,091 1,045 6,136
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry for Business and Labour.

Last update: June 10, 2013.

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.
  • 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 "..".