CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

Creative Tourism Network® Honours Essaouira with the “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Yonka Bakardzhieva-Agalova – My Story Travel (Bulgaria)

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Sfax-Kerkennah | Tunisia

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Bear cave printing 

Photographic rally in Barcelona

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Customize your Anduze vase

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

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

Making a Taleigo bag

Amulet Making in Thailand

Ecological farm visit

Dahar | Tunisia

Painting and wine workshops

Introduction to pottery wheel

Baguio | Philippines

Sining eskinita 

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Creative Arts Workshops

Cooking workshops

Iron and derivates 

Goat’s hair processing

Silleteras farms

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Pottery workshop at “La Maison du Potier” (The potter’s house)

Culinary arts experiences 

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Olive oil workshop

Workshop for carnival masks

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Grenada Cocoa & Spices Health and Wellness Tour

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

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

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Online dance with Latoya

Arts & Craft Tour in Nevis

Basketry and wicker 

Haskap and permaculture

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

Street art with VSA tour 

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Anduze | France

Illustration workshop with Calamina

OpArt atelier

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Barcelos inaugura a Casa da Criatividade

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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 su Casa de la Creatividad

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Barcelos inaugure sa Maison de la Créativité

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

Barcelos inaugura la seva Casa de la Creativitat

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

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

Barcelos inaugura la sua Casa della Creatività

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

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:

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

THEY TRUST US