Travel agents. Tourism brands
| Travel agents | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head offices | Branches | Points of sale | Total | |
| Barcelona | 510 | 479 | 73 | 1,062 |
| Central Catalonia | 227 | 197 | 25 | 449 |
| Costa Brava | 166 | 90 | 2 | 258 |
| Costa Daurada | 70 | 89 | 3 | 162 |
| Costa de Garraf | 122 | 123 | 14 | 259 |
| Costa de Barcelona-Maresme | 89 | 44 | 1 | 134 |
| Pirineus-Prepirineus | 30 | 26 | 0 | 56 |
| Terres de l'Ebre | 24 | 25 | 0 | 49 |
| Terres de Lleida | 41 | 39 | 1 | 81 |
| Val d'Aran | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Catalonia | 1,285 | 1,113 | 119 | 2,517 |
| Source: Departament d'Innovació, Universitats i Empresa. Direcció General de Turisme. | ||||
Last update: March 12, 2010.
Methodological note
Definition of concepts
- Travel agent
- Commercial establishment dedicated to mediation activities between travellers, on the one hand, and the tourism offer (hotels, transport services, tour guides, etc.), on the other.
Methodological aspects
The INE's Survey of occupancy of rural tourism accommodation is one of the statistical sources for measuring tourism activity. Its main objective is to understand the behaviour of a series of variables that describe the fundamental characteristics of this type of accommodation in these tourism sectors: travellers, overnight stays and occupancy rate.
The survey is aimed at occupancy of rural tourism accommodation registered in the Tourism General Direction register, the one that can be consulted in the lists of tourism establishments published by the Ministry for Business and Labour.
On the basis of INE data, Idescat expands the results for Catalonia according to the category of the establishments and tourism brands of destination.
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 brand 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.
This means that Catalonia is now divided into nine tourism brands:
- Barcelona: Barcelonès.
- Costa Brava: Alt Empordà, Baix Empordà, Gironès, Pla de l'Estany and Selva.
- Costa Daurada: Alt Camp, Baix Camp, Baix Penedès, Conca de Barberà, Priorat and Tarragonès.
- Costa Barcelona: Alt Penedès, Baix Llobregat, Garraf, Maresme, Vallès Occidental and Vallès Oriental.
- Paisatges Barcelona: Anoia, Bages and Osona.
- Pirineus: Alt Urgell, Alta Ribagorça, Berguedà, Cerdanya, Garrotxa, Pallars Jussà, Pallars Sobirà, Ripollès and Solsonès.
- Terres de Lleida: Garrigues, Noguera, Pla d'Urgell, Segarra, Segrià and Urgell.
- Terres de l'Ebre: Baix Ebre, Montsià, Ribera d'Ebre and Terra Alta.
- Val d'Aran: Aran.
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 "..".