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Tourism offices. Tourism brands
Barcelona Catalunya Central Costa Barcelona Costa Brava Costa Daurada Costa del Garraf Costa de Barcelona-Maresme Paisatges Barcelona Pirineus Terres de l'Ebre Terres de Lleida Val d'Aran Catalonia
2022 2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 30 36 26 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 12 31 15 17 2 171
2021 6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 31 39 30 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 11 35 20 18 2 192
2020 6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 30 39 30 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 11 35 20 17 2 190
2019 6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 30 39 30 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 11 32 20 16 2 186
2018 6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 30 39 31 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 11 33 20 16 2 188
2017 6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 30 40 31 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 11 33 20 16 2 189
2016 5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 29 40 31 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 11 33 20 16 2 187
2015 4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 29 42 33 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 11 34 19 17 2 191
2014 4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 31 42 40 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 16 45 25 21 3 227
2013 4 24 24 43 40 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 45 25 21 3 229
2012 4 24 24 43 40 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 45 25 21 3 229
2011 4 24 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 43 39 10 13 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 45 25 21 3 227
2010 4 22 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 42 39 10 12 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 45 25 21 3 223
2009 4 20 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 40 38 9 12 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 41 22 20 3 209
2008 4 19 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 38 33 9 8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 37 19 15 3 185
2007 4 16 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 38 30 9 8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 36 17 13 3 174
2006 4 17 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 39 30 9 7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 36 18 12 2 174
2005 4 16 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 38 28 9 7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 31 17 10 2 162
2004 4 14 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 37 28 9 7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 29 16 9 2 155
2003 4 13 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 33 28 9 5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 28 16 8 2 146
Source:
2003-2019: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families. Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu.
2020-2022: Ministry of Business and Labour.
Notes:
- Registered tourist information centres.
- A partir del mes de enero de 2015 la marca Costa Barcelona incorpora también las comarcas del Vallès Occidental y del Vallès Oriental. Also, data have been revised since 2003.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: July 10, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Tourism Office
Equipment, information, promotion and commercialisation of tourism products and services and offer of tourism created around tourism resources in the territorial area of reference.

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 "..".