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Tourist accommodations. By type. Tourism brands

Tourist accommodations. Establishments and beds. By type. Tourism brands 2023
Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Apartments Tourist housing Total
Establishments 3,146 355 2,646 293 104,810 111,250
Barcelona 792 0 0 28 10,821 11,641
Paisatges Barcelona 106 16 338 14 773 1,247
Costa Brava 771 109 519 84 43,724 45,207
Costa Daurada 290 51 233 32 25,562 26,168
Costa Barcelona 470 47 196 52 11,184 11,949
Pirineus 416 104 1,010 59 4,713 6,302
Terres de l'Ebre 102 14 164 15 5,745 6,040
Terres de Lleida 88 5 167 6 598 864
Val d'Aran 111 9 19 3 1,690 1,832
Beds 321,648 270,147 21,576 14,833 576,683 1,204,887
Barcelona 88,628 0 0 1,193 59,519 149,340
Paisajes Barcelona 4,079 4,770 2,674 401 4,277 16,201
Costa Brava 78,326 120,612 4,651 5,697 240,530 449,816
Costa Daurada 60,775 62,421 1,905 3,387 140,617 269,105
Costa Barcelona 61,938 33,228 1,624 2,359 61,546 160,695
Pirineus 15,584 36,948 7,895 1,311 25,960 87,698
Terres de l'Ebre 5,422 7,413 1,225 374 31,613 46,047
Terres de Lleida 4,517 1,686 1,414 59 3,324 11,000
Val d'Aran 2,379 3,069 188 52 9,297 14,985
Source:
Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Knowledge.
Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Labour.
Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.
Note: Due to the creation of the region of El Moianès, on 30 September 2016 data from tourism brands Costa Barcelona and Paisatges de Barcelona were reviewed.

Last update: December 23, 2024.

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.
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.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.