Strategic planning

  • 2024
    Government Measure for Tourism Management 2024-2027

    The objective of this Government Measure is to prioritize the management of tourism activity to improve the balance with the daily life of residents and position Barcelona as a reference in the management, regulation, financing, and social return of tourism activity.

  • 2023
    Plan de Sostenibilidad turística en destinación Barcelona
  • 2022
    Tourism Sustainability Plan in Destination Barcelona

    Summary document of the 19 tourism projects that have received funding from the European Next Generation funds for a value of 41 million euros and that will be executed between 2023 and 2025. Watch video video

     

  • 2022
    Declaration of best practices for tour groups in public areas in Barcelona

    Document acordat amb les dues associacions de guies oficials, Aguicat i APIT, per millorar la gestió dels grups turístics guiats a la via pública, la qualitat del servei de guiatge, l'experiència del visitant i l'encaix amb la vida veïnal. Conté un annex específic per als barris de Ciutat Vella que registren major afluència turística.

  • 2022
    Evaluation of the Strategic Tourism Plan 2020

    Evaluation of the Strategic Tourism Plan 2020

  • 2021
    Tourism Marketing Strategy for Destination Barcelona (EMTDB)

    Tourism Marketing Strategy for Destination Barcelona (EMTDB)

  • 2021
    Culture and creative industry as a factor in the transformation of the visitor's economy

    Report of the Department of Tourism and Creative Industries presented to the Committee on Economy and Finance of March 17, 2021, which includes the main conclusions of the Forum of debate 'City, Tourism and Culture: a joint opportunity' and the lines of action to be developed.

  • 2020
    Creation of new imaginaries and contents for the improvement of mobility and tourist sustainability.

    Government measure presented to the Economy and Finance Commission of January 22, 2020. It compiles a series of actions on the mobility and the creation of new tourist imaginaries, in order to better manage the flow of visitors that receives the city, diversify its socio-economic contribution, reduce the negative impacts on high-affluence spaces and contribute to expanding the knowledge that the people of Barcelona have about their city.

  • 2018
    Territorial strategy of tourist management. Government measure

    The Territorial Strategy for Tourism Management, framed in the Strategic Tourism Plan 2020, includes 261 measures that make up the roadmap to maximize the social return of tourist activity in the territories, while at the same time considering the synergies with the city as a whole and the metropolitan region.

  • 2017
    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).

  • 2017
    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.

  • 2015
    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.

  • 2015
    Boost to the participation process on Barcelona's tourism model

    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.

  • 2015
    Barcelona, city and tourism: Local agreement for the management and promotion of responsible and sustainable tourism

    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

  • 2013
    District Tourism Plans, more even territorial distribution of tourist activity

    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.

  • 2010
    Strategic Tourism Plan for Barcelona for 2010-2015

    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.