Report commissioned under the Strategic Tourism Plan for 2020, featuring suggested guidelines for promoting destination Barcelona with the main aim of ensuring its sustainability.
Data and documents
In this section, you will find documents, data and surveys to give you first-hand knowledge of the tourism situation in Barcelona.
Highlights
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04/12/2025Infographic of tourism activity October 2025
Compilation of the main indicators of tourism activity in Barcelona during October 2025.
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28/10/25Tax on stays in tourist establishments (IEET)
Collection of data on collection, income and expenditure from the IEET and the surcharge applied by Barcelona City Council.
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22/04/2025Tourist Habits 2024
According to a survey by the Tourism Observatory, the average travel expenditure increases by 7.3%
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51 documents
- Grounds for applying tourist marketing for a sustainable destination: the case of BarcelonaImage
- Tourist Mobility Strategy in Barcelona
The Tourist Mobility Strategy (EMT) provides a global analysis of the city's tourist mobility in order to design new urban policies. The EMT aims at offering an answer both to the Urban Mobility Plan (PMU 2013-2018) as well as to the challenges and goals for the Strategic Plan for Tourism (PET20).
- Barcelona declaration
Barcelona City Council, in cooperation with the Provincial Government of Barcelona, the Catalan Tourism Agency and Responsible Tourism Institute (ITR), organized from next 17 to 19 May 2017, the International Conference on Sustainable Tourism for the Development in the framework of the New Urban Agenda. The event concluded with the presentation of a statement and some guidelines about sustainable tourism.
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- Report on tourist activity in Barcelona
Reports on tourism statistics in Barcelona. Barcelona Tourism Observatory: city and region (Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Provincial Council, Barcelona Tourism). Key Figures
Càpsula 1 - 2024 (PDF 2.96 MB) Càpsula 2 - 2024 (PDF 2.68 MB) Càpsula 3 - 2024 (PDF 1.71 MB) Capsule 4 - 2024 (PDF 1.29 MB) Informe anual 2023 (PDF 7.43 MB) Informe anual 2022 (PDF 7.26 MB) Informe anual 2021 (PDF 7.56 MB) Informe anual 2020 (PDF 2.24 MB) Informe anual 2019 (PDF 5.39 MB) Informe anual 2018 (PDF 6.25 MB) Informe anual 2017 (PDF 1.28 MB) Informe anual 2016 (PDF 1.12 MB) - Strategic Plan for Tourism 2020
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.
- Impact of vacation letting on Barcelona's residential letting market
A report which analyses the economic impact of tourist accommodation on the residential market. It comes under the framework of the diagnosis stage for drafting the Strategic Tourism Plan for 2020.
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- Strategic Plan for Tourism 2010-2015: Evaluation of the Programme of Action
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.
- Regulations of the Special Urban Development Plan for Tourist Accommodation (PEUAT)
- Citizen participation in the Special Urban Development Plan for Tourist Accommodation (PEUAT)
- Tourist activity in Barcelona: development and management
A document presenting the features and process developed relating to the successive tourist policies implemented over time in Barcelona.
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