CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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

Salvador da Bahia leads the World Creative Tourism Awards!

Creative tourism: Charentes Region – France – receives the CreativeFriendlyDestination label

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEW with Jiao Hui / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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

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)

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

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

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 / 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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Make your own marbled papers

Catalan cooking class

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Wood crafting workshop

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

“Tapas” workshop in Barcelona

Basketry and wicker 

Print making with Casa Plan  

Bear cave printing 

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Wood carving workshops

Saint Honorat island wine tastings

Merit Creation in Thailand

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Barcelona | Spain

Stonemason workshop 

Silleteras farms

Charentes | France

Aromalight workshops

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Creation of leather goods

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

Biot – Catalog of Creative Experiences

Kingston | Jamaica

Barcelos chocolate experience

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Writing with a goose feather

Performing tour in Barcelona

Biot | France

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Herbalism and summer care

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Valpoetiza

School of Quito – Intarsia workshop : wood inlaying

Goat’s hair processing

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

Ecological farm visit

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Photography school

Sining eskinita 

Gourmande de nature – Culinary workshop

Ceramist workshop

Beeswax candles

Wood Carving Workshop

Street art with VSA tour 

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Gîte agrotouristique la Marie-Simonne

Recife is always carnival 

SUCCESS STORIES

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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