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

Ecological farm visit

Make your own marbled papers

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Cooking workshops Colombian food

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Biot | France

Making adornments from wool

Rumba and sardana dances class

Writing with a goose feather

Photographic rally in Barcelona

Draw what you drink

Customize your Anduze vase

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Baguio | Philippines

Painting and wine workshops

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

From Market to Table

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Pottery workshop

Empordanet | Catalonia

Nabeul | Tunisia

Wood crafting workshop

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Performing tour in Barcelona

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Nicosia | Cyprus

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

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

Botanical printing

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Silk painting workshop

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Traditional weaving workshop

National Museum Cebu

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

Lantern Making in Thailand

Biot – Catalog of Creative Experiences

Create your own upcycled item

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Valpoetiza

Gourmande de nature – Culinary workshop

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

SUCCESS STORIES

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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?

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

INTERVIEWS

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)