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Hotel establishments. By categories. Tourism brands

Hotel establishments. Establishments and beds. By categories. Tourism brands 2023
Hotels
1 star 2 stars 3 stars 4 stars Superior 4 stars 5 stars Luxury Total Hostels and pensions Total
Establishments 320 356 639 566 120 55 28 2,084 1,062 3,146
Barcelona 50 57 129 160 38 26 23 483 309 792
Paisatges Barcelona 8 9 23 15 1 0 0 56 50 106
Costa Brava 85 91 172 153 37 11 2 551 220 771
Costa Daurada 32 29 69 80 14 4 1 229 61 290
Costa Barcelona 41 60 109 92 26 9 0 337 133 470
Pirineus 63 57 87 27 4 0 1 239 177 416
Terres de l'Ebre 11 21 16 15 0 1 0 64 38 102
Terres de Lleida 19 12 13 9 0 1 0 54 34 88
Val d'Aran 11 20 21 15 0 3 1 71 40 111
Beds 15,294 21,234 78,829 129,237 31,865 11,861 8,173 296,493 25,155 321,648
Barcelona 3,930 5,546 15,289 33,352 9,300 7,046 7,286 81,749 6,879 88,628
Paisatges Barcelona 223 279 1,171 1,310 52 0 0 3,035 1,044 4,079
Costa Brava 5,147 5,781 20,791 30,906 7,162 1,531 288 71,606 6,720 78,326
Costa Daurada 964 1,200 15,228 34,605 6,461 462 286 59,206 1,569 60,775
Costa Barcelona 1,802 4,359 19,134 22,407 8,569 2,514 0 58,785 3,153 61,938
Pirineus 1,955 2,443 4,992 1,971 321 0 47 11,729 3,855 15,584
Terres de l'Ebre 399 780 1,017 2,395 0 36 0 4,627 795 5,422
Terres de Lleida 871 717 700 1,241 0 80 0 3,609 908 4,517
Val d'Aran 3 129 507 1,050 0 192 266 2,147 232 2,379
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Labour.

Last update: December 23, 2024.

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.

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