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Hotel establishments. By categories. Tourism brands

Hotel establishments. Establishments and beds. By categories. Tourism brands 2021
Hotels
1 star 2 stars 3 stars 4 stars Superior 4 stars 5 stars Luxury Total Hostels and pensions Total
Establishments 314 352 634 550 111 49 27 2,037 1,055 3,092
Barcelona 51 55 128 159 37 22 22 474 305 779
Paisatges Barcelona 7 9 22 15 1 0 0 54 49 103
Costa Brava 84 90 169 149 33 12 2 539 216 755
Costa Daurada 31 31 72 73 13 4 1 225 59 284
Costa Barcelona 41 57 111 89 23 6 0 327 131 458
Pirineus 60 56 84 27 4 0 1 232 180 412
Terres de l'Ebre 10 20 16 14 0 1 0 61 39 100
Terres de Lleida 19 13 12 8 0 1 0 53 36 89
Val d'Aran 11 21 20 16 0 3 1 72 40 112
Beds 15,607 22,294 80,649 126,221 30,912 9,764 7,963 293,410 25,985 319,395
Barcelona 3,955 5,125 15,089 32,957 9,566 6,097 7,076 79,865 6,752 86,617
Paisatges Barcelona 199 279 1,062 1,310 52 0 0 2,902 1,027 3,929
Costa Brava 5,155 6,276 21,214 29,444 6,793 1,555 288 70,725 6,796 77,521
Costa Daurada 956 1,256 16,202 32,782 6,135 462 286 58,079 1,545 59,624
Costa Barcelona 1,804 4,275 19,429 22,031 8,045 1,138 0 56,722 3,133 59,855
Pirineus 1,891 2,391 4,825 2,060 321 0 47 11,535 3,960 15,495
Terres de l'Ebre 385 768 1,017 2,373 0 36 0 4,579 834 5,413
Terres de Lleida 876 755 667 1,143 0 80 0 3,521 929 4,450
Val d'Aran 386 1,169 1,144 2,121 0 396 266 5,482 1,009 6,491
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Labour.

Last update: September 5, 2022.

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.

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 "..".