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Hotel establishments. By categories. Tourism brands

Hotel establishments. Establishments and beds. By categories. Tourism brands 2017
Hotels
Luxury 5 stars Superior 4 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Total Hostels and pensions Total
Establishments 23 43 88 514 649 339 308 1,964 1,043 3,007
Barcelona 18 19 33 157 125 48 46 446 297 743
Paisatges Barcelona 0 0 0 13 23 7 7 50 47 97
Costa Brava 2 11 21 139 171 92 86 522 220 742
Costa Daurada 1 3 10 70 73 32 31 220 59 279
Costa Barcelona 0 5 20 79 120 56 39 319 126 445
Pirineus 1 0 4 22 86 57 59 229 180 409
Terres de l'Ebre 0 1 0 12 18 17 10 58 40 98
Terres de Lleida 0 1 0 8 13 12 19 53 34 87
Val d'Aran 1 3 0 14 20 18 11 67 40 107
Beds 6,167 9,451 26,842 117,448 89,571 22,169 14,475 286,123 26,126 312,249
Barcelona 5,305 6,196 9,188 32,437 14,899 4,426 2,708 75,159 6,609 81,768
Paisatges Barcelona 0 0 0 1,218 1,128 249 199 2,794 1,007 3,801
Costa Brava 288 1,615 4,896 28,239 23,424 6,780 5,327 70,569 7,006 77,575
Costa Daurada 286 410 5,307 30,523 18,335 1,274 956 57,091 1,555 58,646
Costa Barcelona 0 736 7,130 18,708 23,484 4,243 1,704 56,005 3,213 59,218
Pirineus 22 0 321 1,596 4,938 2,581 1,883 11,341 3,949 15,290
Terres de l'Ebre 0 18 0 1,837 1,207 732 413 4,207 834 5,041
Terres de Lleida 0 80 0 1,109 700 743 899 3,531 920 4,451
Val d'Aran 266 396 0 1,781 1,456 1,141 386 5,426 1,033 6,459
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: October 11, 2018.

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 "..".