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Hotel establishments. By categories. Tourism brands

Hotel establishments. Establishments and beds. By categories. Tourism brands 2019
Hotels
Luxury 5 stars Superior 4 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Total Hostels and pensions Total
Establishments 26 45 102 539 643 348 314 2,017 1,048 3,065
Barcelona 21 19 36 160 127 53 50 466 299 765
Paisatges Barcelona 0 0 1 15 22 8 7 53 48 101
Costa Brava 2 11 27 146 174 90 86 536 218 754
Costa Daurada 1 4 11 73 72 32 31 224 59 283
Costa Barcelona 0 6 23 84 113 56 40 322 131 453
Pirineus 1 0 4 24 86 56 60 231 180 411
Terres de l'Ebre 0 1 0 13 17 19 10 60 39 99
Terres de Lleida 0 1 0 8 12 13 19 53 34 87
Val d'Aran 1 3 0 16 20 21 11 72 40 112
Beds 7,445 8,660 29,371 124,031 84,203 22,292 15,142 291,144 25,985 317,129
Barcelona 6,558 5,461 9,596 33,194 15,006 5,075 3,396 78,286 6,646 84,932
Paisatges Barcelona 0 0 52 1,310 1,062 271 199 2,894 993 3,887
Costa Brava 288 1,489 5,714 28,950 22,654 6,360 5,261 70,716 6,872 77,588
Costa Daurada 286 462 5,643 32,317 17,278 1,274 956 58,216 1,545 59,761
Costa Barcelona 0 736 8,045 21,033 20,377 4,243 1,792 56,226 3,252 59,478
Pirineus 47 0 321 1,868 4,720 2,391 1,891 11,238 3,938 15,176
Terres de l'Ebre 0 36 0 2,095 1,295 754 385 4,565 828 5,393
Terres de Lleida 0 80 0 1,143 667 755 876 3,521 902 4,423
Val d'Aran 266 396 0 2,121 1,144 1,169 386 5,482 1,009 6,491
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Last update: June 5, 2020.

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.

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 "..".