CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

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 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

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

Entretien avec Daniela Nikolova, Responsable du Centre d’Information Touristique de la Municipalité de Gabrovo

Entrevista // LouléCriativo (Portugal) um modelo de desenvolvimento sustentável

Intervista / Alyssa Phares, Direttrice Esecutiva di Paducah (USA): da Città Creativa dell’UNESCO al turismo creativo

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

Entrevista / Alyssa Phares Diretora Executiva de Paducah (EUA), de Cidade Criativa da UNESCO ao turismo criativo

Entrevista amb Daniela Nikolova, Cap del Centre d’Informació Turística de l’Ajuntament de Gabrovo

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

Entrevista com Daniela Nikolova, Chefe do Centro de Informação Turística do Município de Gabrovo

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

Entrevista // LouléCriativo (Portugal) un modelo de desarrollo sostenible

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

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

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

Entrevista / Alyssa Phares, Directora Executiva de Paducah (EUA), de Ciutat Creativa de la UNESCO al turisme creatiu

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

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

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

Intervista con Daniela Nikolova, Responsabile del Centro Informazioni Turistiche del Comune di Gabrovo

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Entretien // LouléCriativo (Portugal) un modèle de développement durable

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

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

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

Entrevista con Daniela Nikolova, Jefa del Centro de Información Turística del Municipio de Gabrovo

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

Entrevista / Alyssa Phares, Directora Ejecutiva de Paducah (EE. UU.): de Ciudad Creativa de la UNESCO al turismo creativo

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

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

Entretien / Alyssa Phares, Directrice Exécutive de Paducah (États-Unis), de Ville Créative de l’UNESCO au tourisme créatif

Entrevista // LouléCriativo (Portugal) un model de desenvolupament sostenible

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

Intervista // LouléCriativo (Portogallo), un modello di sviluppo sostenibile

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Wines and vines experiences 

Coffee workshop with Taller Cafe

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Sfax-Kerkennah | Tunisia

San Antonio | Texas – U.S.A

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Charentes | France

Nabeul | Tunisia

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Braid making

Performing tour 

Workshop for carnival masks

Cosmetic workshop

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

“Azulejos” tiles painting

Teimocidade 

Silk painting workshop

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) | Quebec

Traditional weaving workshop

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Photowalk: Loulé Street Photography

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

From grain to bread 

Beeswax candles

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Discover Cannes Honey

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Embroidery and weaving 

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Street art with VSA tour 

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Straw marquetry

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

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

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Bear cave printing 

Thai Creative Art in Thailand

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

Saint Honorat island wine tastings

Recife | Brazil

Nicosia | Cyprus

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

My first pottery piece 

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

Algarve Cataplana

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

SUCCESS STORIES

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Barcelos inaugura la sua Casa della Creatività

Barcelos inaugura la seva Casa de la Creativitat

Barcelos inaugura su Casa de la Creatividad

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Barcelos inaugura a Casa da Criatividade

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Barcelos inaugure sa Maison de la Créativité

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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