In 2023, approximately 7.8 million tourists stayed in hotels when visiting the Spanish city of Barcelona, which represents an improvement from the previous year and it continues the recovery from COVID-19. In the last two years of the 2010s, the city's hotel industry had hosted more than nine million guests annually.
Hotel categories in Barcelona
The capital of the Catalonian region had more than 440 operating hotels at the end of 2022, of which around one-third fell under the four-star category. The Mandarin Oriental – which was one of the 22 luxury hotels in the city that year – was chosen by participants of an online survey as the best hotel in Barcelona.
Data was compiled by the Observatori del Turisme a Barcelona from Gremi d'Hotels de Barcelona, Idescat, INE, and Turisme de Barcelona.
Figures prior to 2022 were retrieved from previous reports.
Numbers were rounded.
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OTB. (February 23, 2024). Number of tourists in hotels in Barcelona, Spain from 1990 to 2023 (in 1,000s) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/452060/number-of-tourists-in-barcelona-spain/
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OTB. (2024). Number of tourists in hotels in Barcelona, Spain from 1990 to 2023 (in 1,000s) . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/452060/number-of-tourists-in-barcelona-spain/
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