CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

  • RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

    RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

Interview with Daniela Nikolova, Head of Tourist Information Center Gabrovo Municipality

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Brew your own beer!

Live the authentic Saint Vincent lifestyle with NatureFresh Adventures 

Creative leather workshop: design your own custom bag, jewelry or coin purse!

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Silk painting workshop

Mind Lab crafts

Coffee workshop with Taller Cafe

Guerreiros do passo

Spinning and weaving of linen

Fooding experience

Cooking workshops

National Museum Cebu

Kingston | Jamaica

Kite making workshops for kids 

Cannes | France

Bumi & Ashe pottery

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

Herbalism and summer care

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

La Fille de la Mer – body cosmetics workshop

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Creation of leather goods

Straw marquetry

Customize your Anduze vase

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Photowalk: Loulé Street Photography

Online dance with Latoya

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Rumba rythm

Nicosia | Cyprus

Wood carving workshops

Goat’s hair processing

OpArt atelier

Oyster Knife Making

Performing tour 

Cévennes cooking workshop

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Cultural struggles 

Beeswax candles

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Glass workshop

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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:

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

THEY TRUST US