Age of tourists in Barcelona 2023

Barcelona is a popular tourist destination among young adults. In 2022, around 40.5 percent adult travelers in the Spanish city were between 25 and 34 years of age, according to a survey. Moreover, around 70 percent of Barcelona's visitors interviewed that year were leisure travelers.

What is there to do in Barcelona?

Barcelona’s architecture, strongly characterized by the work of Antoni Gaudí, is one of its most attractive features for visitors. The architect’s most famous project, the Basilica of the Holy Family – most popularly known as “La Sagrada Familia” – was the second most visited site in Barcelona in 2021, behind another of his constructions, the Parc Güell. Other popular activities among Barcelona’s visitors are going to the beach, shopping, enjoy the city’s gastronomy, and taking part in sports events.

Accommodation in Barcelona

With the considerable growth of tourism volume in Barcelona in the past decades, came the expansion of the city’s lodging industry. In 2022, the number of hotel rooms available in Barcelona increased by two percent versus 2019, reaching the highest number since 1990. Hotel accommodation is, nonetheless, only a part of the diverse lodging offer in the city.