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Rural tourism. Establishments and beds. By categories. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Rural tourism. By establishments. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2024
Shared country house Independent country house Masia Farm Total
Alt Camp 2 26 8 31 67
Alt Empordà 24 54 34 51 163
Alt Penedès 9 30 10 46 95
Alt Urgell 11 44 8 32 95
Alta Ribagorça 19 52 1 1 73
Anoia 3 34 6 44 87
Aran 8 15 0 0 23
Bages 1 11 10 58 80
Baix Camp 7 19 8 13 47
Baix Ebre 1 11 9 49 70
Baix Empordà 18 22 25 54 119
Baix Llobregat 0 1 0 2 3
Baix Penedès 3 8 1 4 16
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 0
Berguedà 3 10 10 151 174
Cerdanya 16 31 5 17 69
Conca de Barberà 5 31 6 6 48
Garraf 0 0 5 3 8
Garrigues 2 3 0 4 9
Garrotxa 6 9 37 96 148
Gironès 4 2 16 42 64
Lluçanès 1 9 1 24 35
Maresme 0 3 9 14 26
Moianès 2 6 4 19 31
Montsià 4 10 5 14 33
Noguera 8 34 6 18 66
Osona 2 14 17 80 113
Pallars Jussà 20 35 6 4 65
Pallars Sobirà 24 74 1 3 102
Pla d'Urgell 0 3 2 8 13
Pla de l'Estany 6 14 16 63 99
Priorat 9 29 2 7 47
Ribera d'Ebre 7 16 2 10 35
Ripollès 7 31 20 94 152
Segarra 4 25 2 7 38
Segrià 0 6 2 5 13
Selva 1 2 21 55 79
Solsonès 1 15 4 125 145
Tarragonès 0 5 2 8 15
Terra Alta 3 13 3 14 33
Urgell 4 22 1 4 31
Vallès Occidental 2 0 1 1 4
Vallès Oriental 1 1 22 40 64
Catalonia 248 780 348 1,321 2,697
Metropolità 3 5 33 62 103
Comarques Gironines 66 134 169 455 824
Camp de Tarragona 23 110 26 65 224
Terres de l'Ebre 15 50 19 87 171
Ponent 18 93 13 46 170
Comarques Centrals 12 85 48 473 618
Alt Pirineu i Aran 98 251 21 57 427
Penedès 13 52 19 76 160
Barcelona 24 113 94 478 709
Girona 75 151 173 475 874
Lleida 108 348 35 212 703
Tarragona 41 168 46 156 411
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Labour.
Rural tourism. By beds. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces 2024
Shared country house Independent country house Masia Farm Total
Alt Camp 30 215 94 241 580
Alt Empordà 253 425 424 330 1,432
Alt Penedès 82 206 109 365 762
Alt Urgell 112 246 111 187 656
Alta Ribagorça 160 235 14 4 413
Anoia 29 186 58 264 537
Aran 91 170 0 0 261
Bages 5 85 99 438 627
Baix Camp 75 140 69 125 409
Baix Ebre 9 68 85 292 454
Baix Empordà 220 164 315 341 1,040
Baix Llobregat 0 4 0 25 29
Baix Penedès 30 60 13 39 142
Barcelonès 0 0 0 0 0
Berguedà 26 97 133 1,452 1,708
Cerdanya 202 175 65 84 526
Conca de Barberà 42 211 64 60 377
Garraf 0 0 47 34 81
Garrigues 23 32 0 24 79
Garrotxa 57 84 497 656 1,294
Gironès 33 11 194 332 570
Lluçanès 8 57 12 222 299
Maresme 0 25 96 72 193
Moianès 6 23 44 161 234
Montsià 49 99 67 103 318
Noguera 75 257 60 179 571
Osona 27 120 210 717 1,074
Pallars Jussà 247 209 66 42 564
Pallars Sobirà 250 422 8 14 694
Pla d'Urgell 0 31 17 77 125
Pla de l'Estany 59 132 204 523 918
Priorat 108 191 28 44 371
Ribera d'Ebre 39 99 25 71 234
Ripollès 77 167 270 595 1,109
Segarra 30 151 16 85 282
Segrià 0 48 20 40 108
Selva 14 23 239 499 775
Solsonès 10 90 43 930 1,073
Tarragonès 0 35 28 46 109
Terra Alta 38 104 29 104 275
Urgell 40 191 11 40 282
Vallès Occidental 23 0 12 4 39
Vallès Oriental 17 12 234 277 540
Catalonia 2,596 5,300 4,130 10,138 22,164
Metropolità 40 41 353 423 857
Comarques Gironines 713 1,006 2,143 3,276 7,138
Camp de Tarragona 255 792 283 516 1,846
Terres de l'Ebre 135 370 206 570 1,281
Ponent 168 710 124 445 1,447
Comarques Centrals 101 592 559 3,983 5,235
Alt Pirineu i Aran 1,062 1,457 264 331 3,114
Penedès 122 332 198 594 1,246
Barcelona 223 775 1,047 3,965 6,010
Girona 829 1,115 2,198 3,417 7,559
Lleida 1,124 2,188 383 1,631 5,326
Tarragona 420 1,222 502 1,125 3,269
Source: Idescat, based on data from the Ministry of Business and Labour.

Last update: June 12, 2025.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Rural tourism
Form of tourism in accommodation located in the rural environment. They tend to be in contact with agricultural operations and buildings built before 1950 in accordance with the architecture of the zone. They have drinking water, electricity, heating, sanitary services and the appropriate furniture. They are classified into four groups: shared country house, independent country house, masia and masoveria.
Rural tourism. Shared country house
Single family house in a population nucleus that the owner shares with tourists and provides accommodation in the form of rooms and at least breakfast.
Rural tourism. Independent country house
Single family house in a population nucleus that provides accommodation services in the form of an entire house.
Rural tourism. Masia
Single family house outside of any population nucleus that the owner shares with tourists and provides accommodation in the form of rooms and at least breakfast.

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.

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