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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 2022
Establishments Beds
Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total
Alt Camp 7 0 61 68 422 0 505 927
Alt Empordà 233 33 159 425 15,054 35,187 1,387 51,628
Alt Penedès 25 0 92 117 764 0 743 1,507
Alt Urgell 42 8 98 148 1,514 2,625 671 4,810
Alta Ribagorça 46 5 73 124 1,791 1,080 413 3,284
Anoia 16 1 81 98 717 90 493 1,300
Aran 112 9 19 140 6,491 3,069 188 9,748
Bages 30 5 77 112 1,194 1,149 608 2,951
Baix Camp 71 17 44 132 11,911 22,998 391 35,300
Baix Ebre 36 4 59 99 2,861 4,119 380 7,360
Baix Empordà 205 43 112 360 15,562 60,234 980 76,776
Baix Llobregat 87 2 3 92 10,928 3,042 29 13,999
Baix Penedès 34 4 16 54 4,390 4,200 145 8,735
Barcelonès 787 0 0 787 88,174 0 0 88,174
Berguedà 47 19 166 232 1,048 8,046 1,620 10,714
Cerdanya 62 7 63 132 3,230 4,524 478 8,232
Conca de Barberà 20 2 46 68 791 1,284 355 2,430
Garraf 70 6 6 82 5,718 8,526 67 14,311
Garrigues 7 0 9 16 92 0 79 171
Garrotxa 47 18 140 205 1,193 3,990 1,196 6,379
Gironès 59 3 63 125 3,146 738 539 4,423
Maresme 158 30 24 212 32,417 18,876 197 51,490
Moianès 8 1 30 39 147 390 249 786
Montsià 33 5 31 69 1,554 2,400 293 4,247
Noguera 25 3 61 89 682 1,455 527 2,664
Osona 50 9 142 201 1,975 3,141 1,282 6,398
Pallars Jussà 18 5 63 86 699 1,794 524 3,017
Pallars Sobirà 60 22 103 185 2,835 7,842 702 11,379
Pla d'Urgell 7 0 13 20 217 0 125 342
Pla de l'Estany 15 3 108 126 403 1,623 902 2,928
Priorat 24 3 47 74 393 951 378 1,722
Ribera d'Ebre 16 2 32 50 434 333 207 974
Ripollès 68 14 147 229 2,512 5,013 1,058 8,583
Segarra 9 0 50 59 251 0 392 643
Segrià 33 1 11 45 2,852 111 85 3,048
Selva 248 27 69 344 43,757 22,905 687 67,349
Solsonès 26 6 125 157 717 2,319 872 3,908
Tarragonès 130 25 14 169 42,415 32,988 95 75,498
Terra Alta 16 3 33 52 578 561 281 1,420
Urgell 8 0 34 42 371 0 294 665
Vallès Occidental 56 0 3 59 6,879 0 30 6,909
Vallès Oriental 69 8 61 138 3,985 2,739 516 7,240
Catalonia 3,120 353 2,588 6,061 323,064 270,342 20,963 614,369
Metropolità 1,159 41 97 1,297 142,405 25,047 828 168,280
Comarques Gironines 875 141 798 1,814 81,627 129,690 6,749 218,066
Camp de Tarragona 252 47 212 511 55,932 58,221 1,724 115,877
Terres de l'Ebre 101 14 155 270 5,427 7,413 1,161 14,001
Ponent 89 4 178 271 4,465 1,566 1,502 7,533
Comarques Centrals 162 39 576 777 5,101 14,655 4,832 24,588
Alt Pirineu i Aran 340 56 419 815 16,560 20,934 2,976 40,470
Penedès 142 11 153 306 11,547 12,816 1,191 25,554
Barcelona 1,394 78 676 2,148 153,627 45,051 5,748 204,426
Girona 920 147 844 1,911 84,214 132,708 7,128 224,050
Lleida 419 63 685 1,167 19,474 22,749 5,057 47,280
Tarragona 387 65 383 835 65,749 69,834 3,030 138,613
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Labour.

Last update: July 25, 2023.

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.

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 "..".