CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

Call for entries for 15th 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!

G20 : The Creative Tourism Network invited to share good practices!

Brazil: International Conference on Creative Tourism

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

Creative Tourism: Interview with Artur Bastos, Head of Division on a substitution basis – Division of Tourism and Cultural Management – of Amarante, Creative City UNESCO

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

Interview with Maeva Riroroco, President of the Rapa Nui, Chamber of Tourism (Easter Island, Isla de Pascua, Chile)

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Lantern Making in Thailand

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Traditional dances workshop

Writing with a goose feather

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

Creation of a drop-down book in star format in an art-studio at the Poble Espanyol

Coffee roasting workshop

Discover ceramic modeling

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Experiencing authentic culture in Trinidad & Tobago with Pure Lopino Tours

Living in island of Gods

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

My first pottery piece 

Photographying & revealing creativity

Empordanet | Catalonia

Bamboo cooking

Silleteras farms

Biot – Catalog of Creative Experiences

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Learn to cook in Biot’s communal wood oven (Provence, French Riviera)

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Baguio city creative forum 

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

A half-day in the world of weaving

Visit Timis | Romania

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

Olha! Recife

Traditional catalan desserts

Making adornments from wool

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Catalan cooking class

Embroidery and weaving 

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

Step into the soul of Belize through hands-on cultural immersion

Goat’s hair processing

From Market to Table

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Oenological games

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Photography school

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Around Louvre-Lens | France

Print making with Casa Plan  

Ceramist workshop

Olive oil workshop

Braid making

Djerba | Tunisia

Empordà-style decoration workshop

SUCCESS STORIES

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

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?

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

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

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