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

Gîte agrotouristique la Marie-Simonne

Hand spinning workshop

Creative Arts Workshops

OpArt atelier

Kite making workshops for kids 

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Draw what you drink

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

From Market to Table

Introduction to pottery wheel

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

“Tapas” workshop in Barcelona

Photowalk: Loulé Street Photography

Create textile pieces to enjoy traditional Catalan festivals in a sewing workshop

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Culinary arts experiences 

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

Make your own marbled papers

Embroidery and weaving 

Aromalight workshops

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

Catalan castellers

The Earth colors

Brew your own beer!

Baguio | Philippines

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

Straw marquetry

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Print making with Casa Plan  

Living in island of Gods

Cultural struggles 

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Bear cave printing 

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Traditional dances workshop

Creative walks

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Valpoetiza

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

Cosmetic workshop

Exotic fruit tour

Tours to enjoy street food

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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:

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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