CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS 2025: A luxury panel of winners!

CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS 2025 … And the winners are… !

Call for Applications : CreativeFriendlyDestination label

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

Webinar on UNTourismQuest Certification: an opportunity for DMOs:

UNESCO : Barcelos, world creative meeting-point

UN Tourism Congress: Andorra, Creative Destination for Mountain Tourism!

Fitur is committed to creative tourism – orange tourism

Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) awarded “World Best Creative Destination”

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Make your own marbled papers

Sew a Taleigo bag in Loulé

Introduction to pottery wheel

Visit our artist studios

Making a wicker basket

Photowalk: Loulé Street Photography

National Museum Cebu

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Botanical printing

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Algarve Cataplana

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Photographying & revealing creativity

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Barcelona | Spain

Ecological farm visit

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Beekeeping workshop in Quito

Writing with a goose feather

Amulet Making in Thailand

Free guided tours

Draw what you drink

Brew your own beer!

Anduze | France

Braid making

Charentes | France

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Create your own soap

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Iron and derivates 

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Creative Arts Workshops

Tours to enjoy street food

From Market to Table

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Discover and taste Empordanet products 

Painting and wine workshops

A half-day in the world of weaving

Wood carving workshops

Baguio | Philippines

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

SUCCESS STORIES

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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