CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

Creative Tourism Network® Invited as a Special Partner of the 19th ECTN Conference in Skiathos

GABROVO (Bulgaria) shines as a Global Creative Tourism Leader, hosting the UNESCO Creative Cities Conference on Crafts and Folk Art

OPEN CALL: The Creative Tourism Network® invites destinations from all over the world to apply for the CreativeFriendlyDestination® label.

Future of Creative Tourism is shaped a in Perpignan‑Méditerranée

Creative Tourism : Essaouira awarded “Best Creative Living Heritage Destination”

Unveiled the Winners of the 13th World Creative Tourism Awards

Creative Tourism Triumphs at FITUR 2026

Creative Tourism Network® and Essaouira strengthen their alliance to promote creative tourism ahead of the UNESCO Conference

Call for entries for 13rd 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 FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

Creative Tourism in Charentes (France) : Interview with Leather Artistry of FREYA, “Crafting the Soul of the Charentes”

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.

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

Intervista con Maeva Riroroco, Presidente della Camera del Turismo di Rapa Nui (Isola di Pasqua, Chile)

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

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

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Creative Tourism in Les Charentes, France: Interview with Kevin Prat, Les Fleurs de Roussillon: Celebrating Nature Through Creative Floral Experiences

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Charentes Region (France) : Interview with Sarah Dupuis, ceramist “Shaping the Essence of the Charenes”

CANNES Creative Tourism: Interview with Laure Toma, Leisure Tourism Director, Cannes Visitors Bureau,

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

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 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

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

Creative Tourism in Charentes (France): Interview with Jean‑Louis Laboissière, Les Hauts de Talmont: A Creative Wine Experience in Charentes (France)

Creative Tourism in Charentes (France): Interview with Séverine Fauvel / @Mon Tendre Atelier

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Creation of leather goods

Print making with Casa Plan  

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

Teimocidade 

Discover Cannes Honey

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

National Museum Cebu

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Kingston | Jamaica

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Painting and wine workshops

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Recife | Brazil

Djerba | Tunisia

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Oyster Knife Making

Grenada Cocoa & Spices Health and Wellness Tour

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Creative Arts Workshops

Cannes | France

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

From Market to Table

Make your own marbled papers

Traditional weaving workshop

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Workshop Art and Creativity / Writing Art-Nature at Nicole Gravel Workshop & Gallery

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Fig Trilogy

Hubs of creative makers

Barcelos chocolate experience

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Mind Lab crafts

Cooking workshops

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Lantern Making in Thailand

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Up Fab Lab 3D printing 

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Visit our artist studios

From grain to bread 

Sew a Taleigo bag in Loulé

Charentes | France

SUCCESS STORIES

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

“Barranquilla Recognized as the World’s Best Creative Destination by the Creative Tourism Network®, and Its Carnival Named the World’s Best Creative Event”!

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Creative Tourism: Ljubljana Named Europe’s Best Creative City Destination!

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

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

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Gabrovo Carnival, an International Cultural Landmark

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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