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Tourist accommodations. By type. Tourism brands

Tourist accommodations. Establishments and beds. By type. Tourism brands 2024
Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Apartments Tourist housing Total
Establishments 3,167 352 2,697 331 105,781 112,328
Barcelona 795 0 0 35 11,333 12,163
Paisatges Barcelona 107 16 346 16 850 1,335
Costa Brava 774 109 524 86 43,729 45,222
Costa Daurada 293 49 240 35 25,648 26,265
Costa Barcelona 480 47 200 54 11,238 12,019
Pirineus 421 104 1,023 64 4,790 6,402
Terres de l'Ebre 103 14 171 15 5,870 6,173
Terres de Lleida 92 5 170 6 613 886
Val d'Aran 102 8 23 20 1,710 1,863
Beds 329,102 267,545 22,164 16,669 582,017 1,217,497
Barcelona 89,755 0 0 1,326 62,334 153,415
Paisajes Barcelona 4,093 4,770 2,771 423 4,698 16,755
Costa Brava 78,010 120,612 4,735 5,801 240,553 449,711
Costa Daurada 60,918 60,771 1,988 3,426 141,090 268,193
Costa Barcelona 62,828 33,228 1,644 2,375 61,846 161,921
Pirineus 15,850 36,900 8,037 1,422 26,382 88,591
Terres de l'Ebre 5,446 7,413 1,281 363 32,298 46,801
Terres de Lleida 4,688 1,686 1,447 59 3,408 11,288
Val d'Aran 7,514 2,165 261 1,474 9,408 20,822
Source: Idescat, based on the Ministry of Business and Labour.

Last update: June 12, 2025.

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.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.