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 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 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!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Guerreiros do passo

Antemoro papermaking in Madagascar

Anduze | France

Pottery workshops

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Making a Taleigo bag

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Gourmande de nature – Culinary workshop

Fooding experience

Dahar | Tunisia

Workshop for carnival masks

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Brew your own beer!

Cultural struggles 

Wood carving workshops

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Baguio | Philippines

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

Pambiliño Reserve & Educational Farm

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Making adornments from wool

Cosmetic workshop

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Biot – Catalog of Creative Experiences

Sculpture workshop

Catalan wine tasting

Pottery workshop at “La Maison du Potier” (The potter’s house)

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Wood crafting workshop

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

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

Cebu making space creative workshops

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Valpoetiza

Haskap and permaculture

Loulé | Portugal

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Do It Your Frites

Workshop Art and Creativity / Writing Art-Nature at Nicole Gravel Workshop & Gallery

Iloilo | Philippines

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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:

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

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?

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

INTERVIEW with Jiao Hui / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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