CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

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

Salvador da Bahia, successful World Conference of Creative Tourism

NEW CreativeFriendlyDestinations Catalogue!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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 Daniela Nikolova, Head of Tourist Information Center Gabrovo Municipality

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

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Routes through the Commune 13

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Braid making

Barcelona | Spain

Marie Line’s Creative Workshop in Brouage

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Create your own soap

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Olive oil workshop

Spinning and weaving of linen

Dahar | Tunisia

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Amulet Making in Thailand

Creative walks

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

Travel sketchbook

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Forging a rough-forged knife

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Algarve Cataplana

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Introduction to Western riding

National Museum Cebu

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Cebu | Philippines

Fig Trilogy

Coffee workshop with Taller Cafe

Eco-Art atelier

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

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

Make your own marbled papers

Fooding experience

Experiencing authentic culture in Trinidad & Tobago with Pure Lopino Tours

Silk painting workshop

Customize your Anduze vase

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Djerba | Tunisia

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

A half-day in the world of weaving

Local cuisine workshop

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

SUCCESS STORIES

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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:

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

THEY TRUST US