CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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

Bahrain: Creative Tourism at the UN Tourism World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Cebu | Philippines

Mosaic workshop in Barcelona

Creation of leather goods

Photography workshop

Introduction to pottery wheel

Guerreiros do passo

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Crazy about the Caribbean Kids Workshop

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

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Gîte agrotouristique la Marie-Simonne

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Coffee roasting workshop

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Algarve Cataplana

Performing tour in Barcelona

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Wines and vines experiences 

Botanical printing

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Visit of wine estate Domaine Pautier

OpArt atelier

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Straw marquetry

Routes through the Commune 13

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

Iloilo | Philippines

Beekeeping workshop in Quito

Workshops for musical production, mixing in Ibiza!

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Routes through the Moravian hill

Wood carving workshops

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Cooking workshops

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Lobster trap fabrication at Musée de l’Île d’Entrée

Baguio city creative forum 

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

Create your own upcycled item

Create your own soap

Bear cave printing 

Cévennes cooking workshop

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

San Antonio | Texas – U.S.A

SUCCESS STORIES

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

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

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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