CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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 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!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Create your own upcycled item

Wood crafting workshop

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Iron and derivates 

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Olive oil workshop

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Introduction to pottery wheel

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Discover Cannes Honey

Art Deco scroll sawing workshop

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

Guerreiros do passo

Ecological farm visit

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

Cannes | France

Bamboo cooking

Perro Sur Graphic Crafts Workshop and Gallery

Pottery workshops

Glass workshop

Stonemason workshop 

Learn to cook in Biot’s communal wood oven (Provence, French Riviera)

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

National Museum Cebu

Beekeeping workshop in Quito

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Iloilo | Philippines

Embroidery and weaving 

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Loulé | Portugal

Baguio | Philippines

Eco-Art atelier

Amulet Making in Thailand

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

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Recife | Brazil

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Fooding experience

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Chocolate workshop in Quito

Sew a Taleigo bag in Loulé

Up Fab Lab 3D printing 

SUCCESS STORIES

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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:

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

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

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

INTERVIEW with Jiao Hui / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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?