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Number of bed places per km2 in urban areas

Figure Created 30 May 2017 Last modified 30 May 2017

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Topics: Environment and health

The indicator presents the tourism density as number of bed places per km2 in urban areas by NUTS2. The number of bed places in an establishment or dwelling is determined by the number of persons who can stay overnight in the beds set up in the establishment (dwelling), ignoring any extra beds that may be set up by customer request. The term bed place applies to a single bed, double beds are counted as two bed places. The unit serves to measure the capacity of any type of accommodation. A bed place is also a place on a pitch or in a boat on a mooring to accommodate one person. One camping pitch should equal four bed places if the actual number of bed places is not known. Urban areas ares include: - Cities (alternative name: densely-populated areas): at least 50 % of the population lives in an urban centre (an urban centre is a cluster of contiguous grid cells of 1 km2 with a density of at least 1500 inhabitants per km2 and a minimum population of 50 000). -Towns and suburbs (alternative name: intermediate density areas): less than 50 % lives in an urban centre but more than 50 % of the population lives in an urban cluster (An urban cluster is a cluster of contiguous grid cells of 1 km2 with a density of at least 300 inhabitants per km2 and a minimum population of 5 000).

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Methodology:

The following steps have beed followed:
1. Number of bed places in cities and towns and suburbs (as provided by Eurostat) have been added
2. The value obtained in previous step (1) has been divided by the area of NUTS2.

Additionally this methodology has been applied for gap filling (total number of bed places available, but no data or only parcial data on degree of urbansation):
1. Share of the three types of degree or urbanisation has been calculated for the NUTS where the number of beds by dgree or uebanisation is available
2. For each country a regression has been calculated being the number of beds by degree of urbanisation the dependent variable and the degree of urbanisation the independent variable.
3. The outcome of the previous regression has been applied to the NUTS where missing data on number of beds by degree of urbanisation.

Units:

Number of bed places per km2

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Additional information

UK data from 2013.

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