Tourism

The City Council of Barcelona entrusts Fira with the management of the CCIB from the year 2021

Barcelona to lead Biosphere city network and work for the sustainability of tourist destinations worldwide

Barcelona has consolidated as a destination for sustainable tourism worldwide

Barcelona hosts IBTM, the most important event on conventions and congresses

Barcelona City Council will internationalize local entrepreneurs at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2017

Barcelona is presented as the gateway for tourism and territory development

Fast recovery of tourist and commercial sectors in Barcelona after 8/17

Barcelona City Council and tourist guides to promote a guide to good practice for street tours

Barcelona is to collaborate with Seoul to promote sustainable tourism

Programme “Barcelona is much more” consolidates its strategy and already represents 27.5% of the tourist activities offered by Turisme de Barcelona

Barcelona calls on holiday rental websites to manage tourist accommodation in the city

Airbnb is required to comply with municipal regulation on tourist accommodation once and for all

FuTurisme Awards reward the best projects promoting responsible tourism

Barcelona shows an "undeniable" commitment to sustainable tourism

Barcelona City Council doubles the number of illegal tourist apartment observers

Barcelona invests on sustainability and new technologies to promote a competitive tourism model

Barcelona City Council will invest €161,000 from the tourist tax to improve squares in Gracia district

The City and Tourism Council approves the Strategic Tourism Plan report

Barcelona and New York will create a virtual office to cooperate on issues like housing, tourism, reindustrialization and technologic innovation

Barcelona City Council presents a new web app at the Mobile World Congress to discover tourist locations in the city

Mayor Ada Colau poses new agreements to improve the management of tourism

Barcelona City Council presents the new Strategic Plan for Tourism 2020

Free online English course for taxi drivers starts with more than 1.000 applicants registered

Barcelona is committed to promote new technologies to improve tourism management

Barcelona City Council introduces improvements in PEUAT (Special Urban Plan for Tourist Accommodation) to achieve the greatest possible consensus

Barcelona City Council named city with best international investment promotion, according to fDi Magazine (Financial Times Group)

Barcelona City Council, business associations and trade unions sign a framework agreement to promote gastronomy in the city

Turisme de Barcelona's General Council 2017 Action Plan will focus on sustainability

Barcelona City Council organises a social and solidarity economy fair to promote a new form of Christmas consumerism

13 residence halls operating as tourist accommodation will be sanctioned with fines

Barcelona City Council to invest €4.5M to improve and renovate Park Güell and its surroundings

Barcelona hosts the IBTM World Congress

Airbnb and Homeaway are fined 600.000 euros for advertising unlicensed tourist accommodation

Barcelona City Council attends the Smart City Expo World Congress with 18 local firms and fosters debate for a more collaborative digital economy

Barcelona is attending the World Travel Market to share its sustainable-tourism model with other experiences

Barcelona debates the sharing economy and its impact on the city

The chair of the CETT School of Tourism, Hospitality & Gastronomy promotes Barcelona's academic positioning and international leadership

Barcelona, Madrid and Paris call for states to open up new governance opportunities for cities and to guarantee necessary finance

City Council to invest 2.17 million euros from the tourist tax revenues to improve public spaces in Ciutat Vella and Gracia

Barcelona to organise an international meeting in november to discuss on tourism management in the cities

The shock plan on tourist apartments allows the City Council to order the closure of 615 illegal tourist flats in the summer

Barcelona City Council submits its objections to the Draft Decree on Regulating Tourism in Catalonia

Barcelona restores the medallions in the Hypostyle Hall ceiling in Park Güell

Horta-Guinardó to invest €85,000 in improving mobility in Turó de la Rovira and reducing any inconvenience caused by the large number of visitors to the area

Ciutat Vella launches the first Barcelona District Economic Development Plan

Barcelona City Council supports the restaurant sector through a series of promotional measures and initiatives

Report on Tourist Activity issued by the City and Tourism Council (July 2016)

The Generalitat acknowledges €90 million debt with City Council and the two authorities agree a timetable for returning the money

Barcelona unveils a shock plan to deal firmly with illegal tourist apartments

Barcelona works with Sónar to increase the festival's economic and social return to the city

Barcelona allocates €1.8 million raised by the tourist tax to finance a series of tourism-related measures

Ada Colau calls on the Municipal City and Tourism Council to contribute to the debate on making tourism sustainable

Barcelona sets up the Municipal City and Tourism Council

UnSheeping, Cap a Mar and Spinatura, the best tourism-related business projects

The Youth Tourism Fair backs responsible, solidarity and local tourism this year

Barcelona offers city taxi drivers an English course

Full Council approves the operating regulations of the City and Tourism Council

Barcelona takes part in the presentation of the World Charter for Sustainable Tourism +20 at FITUR

City Council issues cessation orders for 388 illegal tourist apartments and seals off 33 in 2015

Barcelona City Council to introduce changes to strengthen its leadership of Turisme de Barcelona's governing body

Barcelona fines Airbnb and Homeaway for advertising illegal tourist flats

City Council holds it first debate on the plan for regulating illegal tourist accommodation

Agustí Colom suggests a rethink of the city model for a better spread of the benefits of tourism

The city government presents a Report on Tourism in Barcelona

City Council will shortly present the participation process for the future Special Tourist Accommodation Regulation Plan

The Mayor reminds everyone of the importance of public leadership in designing tourism, now and in the future

Ciutat Vella starts a pilot scheme for allocating illegal tourist flats to social housing policies

Full Council approves the setting up of the City and Tourism Council

Government measures on poverty and tourism for the extraordinary Full Council meeting

Ada Colau welcomes the decision to renew Barcelona as Mobile World Capital and the venue for the Mobile World Congress and points to the new challenge of “improving and widening its economic and social impact”

City Council starts work on a plan for regulating tourist accommodation and suspending licences across the city