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Hotel establishments. By categories. Tourism brands

Hotel establishments. Establishments and beds. By categories. Tourism brands 2024
Hotels
1 star 2 stars 3 stars 4 stars Superior 4 stars 5 stars Luxury Total Hostels and pensions Total
Establishments 324 364 644 569 126 55 29 2,111 1,056 3,167
Barcelona 50 57 130 160 40 26 23 486 309 795
Paisatges Barcelona 8 9 23 15 1 0 0 56 51 107
Costa Brava 85 91 171 154 39 11 2 553 221 774
Costa Daurada 32 30 68 82 14 4 2 232 61 293
Costa Barcelona 42 62 111 93 28 9 0 345 135 480
Pirineus 66 60 86 27 4 0 1 244 177 421
Terres de l'Ebre 11 21 17 15 0 1 0 65 38 103
Terres de Lleida 20 13 15 9 0 1 0 58 34 92
Val d'Aran 10 21 23 14 0 3 1 72 30 102
Beds 16,054 22,377 79,022 132,044 33,451 12,197 8,199 303,344 25,758 329,102
Barcelona 3,930 5,546 15,308 33,340 10,420 7,046 7,286 82,876 6,879 89,755
Paisatges Barcelona 223 279 1,171 1,310 52 0 0 3,035 1,058 4,093
Costa Brava 5,069 5,768 20,363 31,000 7,244 1,546 288 71,278 6,732 78,010
Costa Daurada 962 1,224 14,205 35,697 6,461 462 338 59,349 1,569 60,918
Costa Barcelona 1,806 4,377 19,162 22,843 8,953 2,514 0 59,655 3,173 62,828
Pirineus 2,127 2,528 4,992 1,970 321 0 47 11,985 3,865 15,850
Terres de l'Ebre 399 780 1,041 2,395 0 36 0 4,651 795 5,446
Terres de Lleida 914 721 825 1,240 0 80 0 3,780 908 4,688
Val d'Aran 624 1,154 1,955 2,249 0 513 240 6,735 779 7,514
Source: Idescat, based on the Ministry of Business and Labour.

Last update: June 12, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

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.
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.

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.