Who we are
The Department of Tourism at Barcelona City Council, through the Manager's Office for the Economy and Economic Promotion, seeks to improve the balance between tourism and residents’ daily lives and position Barcelona as a benchmark in the management, organisation, funding and social return of tourism. The department's road map is based on the 2024-2027 Government Measure for Tourism Management.
The creation of the Department of Tourism, towards the end of 2009, was key to adopting a cross-cutting approach to tourism by the City Council involving coordinating, providing content and putting matters of tourism and its impacts on the agendas of many areas and territories.
The first steps in this direction were taken in 2011, when Barcelona was the first city to receive Biosphere certification as a destination committed to environmentally, socially and socio-economically responsible management of tourism.
Our goals
Regulate tourism
Setting the game’s rules to achieve a balance in the city.
Ensure the destination’s inalienable sustainability
To do so by adopting a broad approach incorporating other fundamental criteria into environmental issues such as job quality and the strength of business relations with the local economic community.
Promote the best social return on the economic activity generated
Activating multiplier effects to extend this to the entire city.
