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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, areas and provinces 2007
Establishments Beds
Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total Hotel establishments Campsites Rural tourism Total
Alt Camp 12 1 30 43 551 125 243 919
Alt Empordà 206 33 119 358 14,331 32,256 941 47,528
Alt Penedès 18 0 50 68 766 0 409 1,175
Alt Urgell 41 9 70 120 1,568 2,088 477 4,133
Alta Ribagorça 46 5 74 125 2,030 926 440 3,396
Anoia 14 1 52 67 725 63 326 1,114
Bages 32 3 63 98 1,214 420 457 2,091
Baix Camp 72 19 30 121 8,709 24,505 250 33,464
Baix Ebre 31 8 32 71 2,074 4,304 192 6,570
Baix Empordà 180 44 57 281 13,764 51,796 444 66,004
Baix Llobregat 79 3 1 83 7,189 6,949 4 14,142
Baix Penedès 44 4 8 56 4,087 3,646 60 7,793
Barcelonès 476 0 0 476 49,084 0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 49,084
Berguedà 47 13 105 165 1,327 4,082 928 6,337
Cerdanya 61 7 41 109 2,563 3,771 292 6,626
Conca de Barberà 21 3 39 63 766 1,171 304 2,241
Garraf 64 6 4 74 5,531 7,143 48 12,722
Garrigues 5 0 9 14 175 0 73 248
Garrotxa 41 16 99 156 978 2,963 833 4,774
Gironès 37 2 33 72 1,508 1,013 278 2,799
Maresme 173 31 17 221 34,474 15,929 103 50,506
Montsià 30 6 30 66 1,521 1,753 301 3,575
Noguera 23 3 38 64 674 923 254 1,851
Osona 50 7 117 174 2,102 2,052 942 5,096
Pallars Jussà 21 5 64 90 752 1,496 495 2,743
Pallars Sobirà 62 21 88 171 2,977 6,290 618 9,885
Pla d'Urgell 9 0 12 21 232 0 120 352
Pla de l'Estany 13 4 71 88 376 1,681 597 2,654
Priorat 17 3 42 62 257 853 337 1,447
Ribera d'Ebre 12 1 11 24 354 163 87 604
Ripollès 58 12 92 162 1,924 3,418 688 6,030
Segarra 11 0 41 52 270 0 281 551
Segrià 40 2 5 47 3,051 628 39 3,718
Selva 270 25 38 333 43,002 19,657 356 63,015
Solsonès 24 5 88 117 679 1,923 521 3,123
Tarragonès 128 24 8 160 37,261 26,596 56 63,913
Terra Alta 15 1 20 36 398 335 183 916
Urgell 10 0 26 36 273 0 202 475
Val d'Aran 94 9 17 120 5,424 2,558 159 8,141
Vallès Occidental 35 0 2 37 3,676 0 14 3,690
Vallès Oriental 49 8 34 91 2,931 2,338 277 5,546
Catalonia 2,671 344 1,777 4,792 261,548 235,814 13,629 510,991
Metropolità 894 48 108 1,050 103,651 32,359 855 136,865
Comarques Gironines 805 136 509 1,450 75,883 112,784 5,221 193,888
Camp de Tarragona 294 54 157 505 51,631 56,896 1,250 109,777
Terres de l'Ebre 88 16 93 197 4,347 6,555 763 11,665
Ponent 98 5 131 234 4,675 1,551 849 7,075
Comarques Centrals 167 29 425 621 6,047 8,540 3,174 17,761
Alt Pirineu i Aran 325 56 354 735 15,314 17,129 2,481 34,924
Barcelona 1,029 69 434 1,532 108,761 38,185 3,431 150,377
Girona 850 142 545 1,537 77,734 115,300 4,397 197,431
Lleida 410 63 548 1,021 19,075 18,878 3,788 41,741
Tarragona 382 70 250 702 55,978 63,451 2,013 121,442
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry for Business and Labour.
Note: The 2007-2008 series were revised on May 11, 2010.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: June 10, 2013.

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.

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 "..".