Turism

The new Strategic Plan for Tourism provides new tools and procedures to build future scenarios in a sustainable way. The objective is to promote tourist activities as a source of wealth and generate a greater return for society.

The Strategic Tourism Plan 2015 responded to tourism challenges in the city which were identified as key issues in 2010. This document evaluates the execution of programmes and action carried out for the Action Programme 2010-2015, based on the intensive collection of information from various sources.

Participatory process for reflection, with the aim of identifying key challenges that the city will have to tackle over the coming years and formulating the bases for a local agreement for the management and promotion of responsible and sustainable tourism. January - April 2015

Government measure presented at the Full Municipal Council Meeting of 20 July 2015. It presents a series of initial legislative measures: suspending permits to provide tourist accommodation, prior to the drafting of the Special Urban Development Plan for Tourist Accommodation (PEUAT) and the drafting of a new strategic tourism plan for 2016-2020 which updates the previous one, and the creation of the City and Tourism Council.

Spreading tourist activity more evenly around the territory has become one of the main lines of municipal action and is aimed at bringing order to and managing the effects of tourism, improving the development and quality of such activities and urban life and obtaining a better distribution of its effects on the entire territory. A document presented at the Full Municipal Council Meeting of 20 December 2013.

Presented as a government measure at the Full Municipal Council Meeting of 29 October 2010, the Barcelona Strategic Tourism Plan resulted in the start of an extensive process of reflection and examination of tourism and the city. The plan's main interest lies in the role of tourist activity in the city. It set out the action strategies up to 2015.