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Rural tourism. Travellers and occupancy rate

Rural tourism. Travellers and occupancy rate Catalonia. 1st quarter 2016
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total travellers (thousands) 69.9 14.1 25.2 25.2
Domestic tourism 66.6 13.8 26.1 26.1
From Catalonia 62.8 11.9 23.5 23.5
From the rest of Spain 3.7 1.8 97.7 97.7
Foreign tourism 3.3 0.3 8.9 8.9
Occupancy rate per room (%) 13.9 3.9 z Category not applicable z Category not applicable
Units: Thousands.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Survey of occupancy of rural tourism accommodation.
(z) Category not applicable.
Rural tourism. Travellers and occupancy rate Spain. 1st quarter 2016
Year-over-year variation
Value Absolute % quarter % accumulated
Total travellers (thousands) 598.2 145.4 32.1 32.1
Domestic tourism 530.7 125.2 30.9 30.9
Foreign tourism 67.5 20.3 43.0 43.0
Occupancy rate per room (%) 15.1 3.9 z Category not applicable z Category not applicable
Units: Thousands.
Source: INE. Rural Tourism Accommodation Occupancy Survey.
(z) Category not applicable.

Last update: May 3, 2016. Revised series on July 17, 2024. Next update: October 30, 2024 Calendari

Methodological note

Rural tourism accommodation means establishments or dwellings providing tourist accommodation in return for payment and with or without supplementary services. These establishments usually have some specific features:

  • they are in the countryside, in towns with a population of less than 2,000 inhabitants or isolated (outside the town);
  • they are in buildings that existed before 1950, respect the architectural typology of the area and comply with the requirement for peacefulness and integration into the landscape under the conditions set for this purpose in town planning regulations;
  • they offer a limited number of beds and rooms for the accommodation of guests and meet certain basic facility and amenity requirements.

Traveller means any person who stays for one or more consecutive nights in the same accommodation.

An overnight stay is each night that a traveller stays in the rural tourism establishment.

The occupancy rate per room is the percentage relationship between the daily average of occupied rooms and the total number of available rooms in the period analysed.

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