CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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 // LouléCriativo (Portugal) a model of sustainable development

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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)

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Coffee roasting workshop

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Routes through the Commune 13

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Scented candles workshops 

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Discover Cannes Honey

Discover ceramic modeling

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Creative walks

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

National Museum Cebu

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

The Earth colors

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

San Antonio | Texas – U.S.A

Making a Taleigo bag

Antemoro papermaking in Madagascar

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Pottery workshop

Pottery with Quincha Quintil

Tours to enjoy street food

Create textile pieces to enjoy traditional Catalan festivals in a sewing workshop

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Cooking workshops Colombian food

Creative writing workshop with Prips

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

Quincha Quintil ceramic workshop

Hubs of creative makers

Step into the soul of Belize through hands-on cultural immersion

Olha! Recife

Visit our artist studios

Embroidery and weaving 

Bamboo cooking

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec

Visit of wine estate Domaine Pautier

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Create your own upcycled item

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Cannes | France

“Azulejos” tiles painting

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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:

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

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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?

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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