CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

The Creative Tourism Network®is the Official World Creative Tourism Organization

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NEWS

Call for entries for 15th Creative Tourism Awards

Creative Tourism Network® Shines at WTM London 2025

Creative Tourism International Forum Catalyzes a Global Shift Toward Regenerative Travel in MONDIACULT

The Creative Tourism Network® invites destinations from around the world to co-create at its International Forum during Mondiacult

International Forum on Creative Tourism – Barcelona, Sept. 30th 2025 – Mondiacult

Creative Tourism Network® opens Global Call for CreativeFriendlyDestination® Label, fostering the way for a new era of sustainable tourism

Creative Tourism as an All-Inclusive Solution: Spotlight on the UfM’s Conference in Athens

Creative Tourism Featured at UNESCO House Exhibition

Creative Tourism Network® and UNESCO Transcultura launch the Caribbean Creative Tourism Awards

New Orleans Named World’s Best Creative Destination by the Creative Tourism Network®

Creative Tourism, a sustainable driver for UNESCO and European Union.

CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS 2025: A luxury panel of winners!

CREATIVE TOURISM: CANNES, NEW GLOBAL LEADER!

Salvador da Bahia fosters Creative Tourism

Salvador da Bahia, successful World Conference of Creative Tourism

NEW CreativeFriendlyDestinations Catalogue!

G20 : The Creative Tourism Network invited to share good practices!

Brazil: International Conference on Creative Tourism

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

Creative Tourism: Interview with Artur Bastos, Head of Division on a substitution basis – Division of Tourism and Cultural Management – of Amarante, Creative City UNESCO

Interview with Carol Hay, Director of Marketing UK & Europe for the Caribbean Tourism Organization

Catherine and Sophie, La Méduse (Iles de la Madeleine, Canada)

Is Creative Tourism the new Swiss army knife of post-covid tourism?

Interview with Ivana Jelinčić, World Championship in Olive Picking (Postira, Brač Island, Croatia)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Interview with Maeva Riroroco, President of the Rapa Nui, Chamber of Tourism (Easter Island, Isla de Pascua, Chile)

INTERVIEW / Angeliki Vasileiadou, Digital Marketing Manager, Nicosia Tourism Board

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

INTERVIEW // Mr. Jiao Hui Creative tourism in Chengdu (China), UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy

Creative Tourism: Interview with Nuno Rodrigues, Director of the Department of Culture, Tourism, Youth and Sports of Barcelos, Creative City UNESCO

Interview with Yonka Bakardzhieva-Agalova – My Story Travel (Bulgaria)

Creative Tourism: Interview with Dominic McDowell, Business Development Manager of Kingston, Creative City UNESCO

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

Interview with Sabrina Pratt, SVPratt Creative Strategies – Las Cruces Arts and Cultural District Plan (New Mexico, USA)

Interview / Alyssa Phares Executive Director of Paducah (USA), from Creative City of UNESCO to creative tourism

Interview // LouléCriativo (Portugal) a model of sustainable development

Interview with Daniela Nikolova, Head of Tourist Information Center Gabrovo Municipality

Interview with Luis Rodrigo Teixeira, Focal Point of the City of Belém do Pará, Creative City of Gastronomy – UNESCO.

INTERVIEW with Carine PATTIER – Wax creator, founder of Ombellessence, Jonzac, Charentes – France.

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Creative Tourism: Interview with Te’-Lor Woolery-Eugene, Social Media Coordinator of Kingston, Creative City UNESCO

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Creative Arts Workshops

Exotic fruit tour

Art-deco paper jewellery

Silleteras farms

Fig Trilogy

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

Creative leather workshop: design your own custom bag, jewelry or coin purse!

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Cooking workshops Colombian food

Quincha Quintil ceramic workshop

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

Bamboo cooking

The Earth colors

National Museum Cebu

Barcelos | Portugal

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Dahar | Tunisia

Design your own perfumes

Arts & Crafts markets

Baguio city creative forum 

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Creation of leather goods

Beekeeping workshop in Quito

Writing with a goose feather

Making adornments from wool

Catalan castellers

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Cévennes cooking workshop

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Djerba | Tunisia

Ecological farm visit

“Come Leh We Go to Tobago” – Patriotic T&T

Pottery workshops

Travel sketchbook

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Catalan cooking class

Basketry and wicker 

Wood carving workshops

Living in island of Gods

Customize your Anduze vase

Cámara Lucida

Local cuisine workshop

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

SUCCESS STORIES

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli launches an exclusive creative tourism offer for the summer season!

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Quito expands its creative tourism offer through the experiential´Andes Road´

La Cité des Électriciens (France) voted “Best Creative Lodging” by the Creative Tourism Awards

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

La Ruta Culinaria de Túnez celebra el Día Mundial del Turismo mostrando las experiencias creadas por sus embajadores locales.

Creative Tourism: an alternative to discover the culture and know-how of the Villages and Landscapes of Charentes:

How to Spend 1 Day in the Empordanet: a Creative Itinerary

Les Escapades (Québec), awarded at the Creative Tourism Awards

Why is creative tourism a solution to reactivate tourism in times of pandemic?

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

A Oficina de Turismo de La Bisbal d’Empordà ganha o Prémio Catalunha 2023 para a Inovação

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

A Oficina de Turismo de La Bisbal d’Empordà ganha o Prémio Catalunha 2023 para a Inovação

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

World Championship in Olive Picking receives its award for Best Creative Experience at FITUR 2020

The Tourist Board of La Bisbal d’Empordà wins the Innovation Award 2023 of Catalonia

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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