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Rural tourism. Travellers and overnight stays. By residence

Rural tourism. Travellers and overnight stays. By residence Catalonia. 2020
Value Variation (%)
Total travellers (Thousands) 275.1 -45.4
Domestic tourism 260.1 -39.5
From Catalonia 251.2 -37.6
From the rest of Spain 8.9 -67.7
Foreign tourism 15.1 -79.6
Total overnight stays (Thousands) 810.4 -35.7
Domestic tourism 746.7 -24.3
From Catalonia 712.6 -21.6
From the rest of Spain 34.1 -55.4
Foreign tourism 63.7 -76.8
Occupancy rate per room (%) 23.3 z Category not applicable
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Survey of occupancy of rural tourism accommodation.
Note: Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.
(z) Category not applicable.
Rural tourism. Travellers and overnight stays. By origin Spain. 2020
Value Variation (%)
Total travellers (Thousands) 2,082.9 -52.9
Domestic tourism 1,901.2 -46.2
Foreign tourism 181.7 -79.5
Total overnight stays (Thousands) 6,314.6 -46.1
Domestic tourism 5,600.5 -34.3
Foreign tourism 714.1 -77.7
Occupancy rate per room (%) 20.4 z Category not applicable
Source: INE. Rural Tourism Accommodation Occupancy Survey.
Note: Between 14 March and 21 June 2020, it is in force the Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, which declares the state of alarm for the management of the health crisis situation caused by Covid-19.
(z) Category not applicable.

Last update: February 1, 2021. Revised series on October 10, 2023.

Methodological note

Rural tourism accommodation means establishments or dwellings providing tourist accommodation in return for payment and with or without supplementary services. These establishments usually have some specific features:

  • they are in the countryside, in towns with a population of less than 2,000 inhabitants or isolated (outside the town);
  • they are in buildings that existed before 1950, respect the architectural typology of the area and comply with the requirement for peacefulness and integration into the landscape under the conditions set for this purpose in town planning regulations;
  • they offer a limited number of beds and rooms for the accommodation of guests and meet certain basic facility and amenity requirements.

Traveller means any person who stays for one or more consecutive nights in the same accommodation.

An overnight stay is each night that a traveller stays in the rural tourism establishment.

The occupancy rate per room is the percentage relationship between the daily average of occupied rooms and the total number of available rooms in the period analysed.

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