Number of hotel guests in Barcelona 1990-2021

In 2020 and 2021, a little over three million tourists stayed in hotels when visiting the Spanish city of Barcelona, which shows the strong effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourism sector. 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 reported 310 operating hotels at the end of 2021, of which nearly half fell under the four-star category. The Cotton House Hotel, Autograph Collection – which was one of the 19 luxury hotels in the city that year – was chosen by participants of an online survey as the best hotel in Barcelona.

Main source markets for hotels

In 2021, Spanish residents accounted for one-third of overnight tourists in Barcelonian hotels – the highest share recorded since the mid-2010s. Before the global crisis, around eight out of ten hotel guests in the Catalonian city were international visitors. The most popular countries of origin among hotel guests in 2021 were France, the United States, Italy, and Germany.