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

Photowalk: Loulé Street Photography

Photographying & revealing creativity

Goat’s hair processing

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Sining eskinita 

Performing tour in Barcelona

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Salsa and tango tours

Saint Honorat island wine tastings

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Fooding experience

Bear cave printing 

Print making with Casa Plan  

Perro Sur Graphic Crafts Workshop and Gallery

Wood crafting workshop

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

Dahar | Tunisia

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Kingston | Jamaica

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Pottery with Quincha Quintil

Barcelos chocolate experience

Around Louvre-Lens | France

Catalan wine tasting

Wood carving workshops

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Thai Creative Art in Thailand

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec

Art glass

Design your own perfumes

Algarve Cataplana

Pottery workshop

Cultural struggles 

Tours to enjoy street food

Barcelona | Spain

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Create your own upcycled item

Iloilo | Philippines

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

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

A countryside experience

SUCCESS STORIES

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

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

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

INTERVIEWS

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)