CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

Olive oil workshop

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

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Cebu | Philippines

Photography workshop

Basketry and wicker 

Barcelos imagery

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Cebu making space creative workshops

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Experiencing authentic culture in Trinidad & Tobago with Pure Lopino Tours

Quincha Quintil ceramic workshop

Salsa and tango tours

Traditional dances workshop

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

Free guided tours

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Beekeeping workshop in Quito

Nicosia | Cyprus

The Earth colors

Wines and vines experiences 

Stonemason workshop 

Dahar | Tunisia

Charentes | France

Visit our artist studios

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Sining eskinita 

Creative Arts Workshops

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Wood Carving Workshop

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Street art with VSA tour 

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

From Market to Table

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Brew your own beer!

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Recife | Brazil

Recife is always carnival 

Wood crafting workshop

Crazy about the Caribbean Kids Workshop

Hubs of creative makers

Mind Lab crafts

Discover Cannes Honey

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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