CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

  • CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS

    CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS

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

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 Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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

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 Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Barcelos chocolate experience

Arts & Crafts markets

Hubs of creative makers

Photography workshop

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Come to Brasilia Teimosa 

OpArt atelier

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Recife | Brazil

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

Cosmetic workshop

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Mind Lab crafts

Performing tour 

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Visit our artist studios

Visit of wine estate Domaine Pautier

Grenada Cocoa & Spices Health and Wellness Tour

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Writing with a goose feather

Pottery workshops

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Cannes | France

Sining eskinita 

Haskap and permaculture

Cebu making space creative workshops

Photography school

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Nicosia | Cyprus

Local cuisine workshop

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Coffee farms

Barcelos | Portugal

From Market to Table

Lantern Making in Thailand

Travel sketchbook

Hand spinning workshop

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Discover and taste Empordanet products 

Forging a rough-forged knife

Silleteras farms

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Cultural struggles 

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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:

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

THEY TRUST US