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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Dahar | Tunisia

Discover and taste Empordanet products 

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Cannes | France

Art glass

Algarve Cataplana

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Visit our artist studios

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Performing tour in Barcelona

Glass workshop

Pottery with Quincha Quintil

Design your own perfumes

Merit Creation in Thailand

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

“Azulejos” tiles painting

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

A countryside experience

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

Make your own marbled papers

Coffee roasting workshop

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Forging a rough-forged knife

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Hand spinning workshop

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Barcelona | Spain

Making adornments from wool

Workshop for carnival masks

Traditional catalan desserts

Learn to cook in Biot’s communal wood oven (Provence, French Riviera)

Hubs of creative makers

Cooking workshops Colombian food

San Antonio | Texas – U.S.A

Coffee workshop with Taller Cafe

Art-deco paper jewellery

Catalan wine tasting

SUCCESS STORIES

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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