Pursuant to Article 3 of the Statutes of the Consortium of Turisme de Barcelona, an essential function of the Consortium is to ensure insofar as it is possible that the aims of promoting and fostering tourism and commerce in the city of Barcelona are fulfilled, and to this end, it can perform the following functions:
- Promoting activities aimed at increasing the demand for tourism and commerce.
- Managing, promoting and performing all those citizen activities that may benefit increasing and improving the quality of the touristic and commercial offer in Barcelona.
- Promoting the active presence of Barcelona in the tourist market, in an attempt to co-ordinate the interested sectors in fostering tourism and commerce.
- Encouraging, helping and making it possible to adapt the structures and services in the tourism offer, by supporting the private initiative in the sector.
- Encouraging and promoting conventions, meetings and similar activities, both national and International, in the city of Barcelona.
- Boosting the tourism sector in areas relating to accommodation, restaurants, travel agencies and cultural and leisure activities.
- Studying the city's problems with tourism and commerce by adopting or proposing the measures considered the most appropriate for solving them.
- Preparing the necessary information material, publicity and image to inform people about the resources in Barcelona, in an attempt to attract visitors.
- Working alongside other public or private entities to promote Barcelona, and attract visitors.
- Promoting and, if necessary, participating in agreements with other entities, public or private, to finance tourism and commercial promotion campaigns.
- Contributing to defending the city's natural resources and social-cultural values.
- Studying and analysing the real state of tourism in the city, offering the information obtained from the sector.
- Co-ordinating, boosting and helping all interested sectors to foster tourism, particularly the commercial sector.
- Managing the facilities and equipment with touristic interest or interest for the city.
- Any other functions that the consortium organisations may entrust to the Consortium.
The activity reports of the Consortium of Turisme de Barcelona provide an annual summary of the tasks carried out during the current year.