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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Forging a rough-forged knife

Cannes | France

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Amulet Making in Thailand

Cosmetic workshop

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Eco-Art atelier

Up Fab Lab 3D printing 

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

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

National Museum Cebu

Wood Carving Workshop

San Antonio | Texas – U.S.A

Routes through the Moravian hill

Coffee farms

Mind Lab crafts

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Discover ceramic modeling

Writing with a goose feather

Charentes | France

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Cooking workshops

My first pottery piece 

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Olive oil workshop

Recife is always carnival 

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Online dance with Latoya

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Discover Cannes Honey

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Cebu | Philippines

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Tozeur | Tunisia

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Discover and taste Empordanet products 

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Making adornments from wool

Medellín | Colombia

Braid making

Visit Timis | Romania

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Performing tour 

Traditional dances workshop

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

Barcelos inaugura la sua Casa della Creatività

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Barcelos inaugura a Casa da Criatividade

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:

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

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

Barcelos inaugura la seva Casa de la Creativitat

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

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

Barcelos inaugure sa Maison de la Créativité

Barcelos inaugura su Casa de la Creatividad

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

THEY TRUST US