CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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

Salvador da Bahia, successful World Conference of Creative Tourism

NEW CreativeFriendlyDestinations Catalogue!

G20 : The Creative Tourism Network invited to share good practices!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

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

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

“Tapas” workshop in Barcelona

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Straw marquetry

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

Art Deco scroll sawing workshop

Cebu making space creative workshops

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Do It Your Frites

Bamboo cooking

Candle making workshops

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Herbalism and summer care

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Barcelona | Spain

Silleteras farms

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Make your own marbled papers

Anduze | France

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

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

A countryside experience

Saint Honorat island wine tastings

Algarve Cataplana

Teimocidade 

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Photography school

Bakery for ritual breads

Aromalight workshops

Valpoetiza

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Street art with VSA tour 

Hand spinning workshop

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Tozeur | Tunisia

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Catalan cooking class

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Hubs of creative makers

Baguio | Philippines

Empordà-style decoration workshop

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

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

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