CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

Creative Tourism, a sustainable driver for UNESCO and European Union.

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”

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Kingston | Jamaica

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) | Quebec

Eco-Art atelier

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Introduction to Western riding

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Algarve Cataplana

Beeswax candles

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Creative walks

Empordanet | Catalonia

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Art-deco paper jewellery

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Exotic fruit tour

Haskap and permaculture

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Embroidery and weaving 

Djerba | Tunisia

Traditional catalan desserts

Photowalk: Loulé Street Photography

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

“Azulejos” tiles painting

“Tapas” workshop in Barcelona

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

Wines and vines experiences 

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

National Museum Cebu

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Chocolate workshop in Quito

Nabeul | Tunisia

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Bear cave printing 

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Customize your Anduze vase

Perro Sur Graphic Crafts Workshop and Gallery

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Design your own perfumes

Making adornments from wool

My first pottery piece 

Biot | France

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

The Earth colors

Performing tour 

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

SUCCESS STORIES

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

INTERVIEW / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a City of Gastronomy

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag