CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

Unveiling the Winners of the 13th World Creative Tourism Awards

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

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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 Daniela Nikolova, Head of Tourist Information Center Gabrovo Municipality

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Pottery workshop

Pottery workshops

Iron and derivates 

OpArt atelier

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

Creative walks

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Routes through the Moravian hill

Kaïros, the Gallery of Bowls (Charentes, France)

Catalan wine tasting

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

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Wood crafting workshop

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

San Antonio | Texas – U.S.A

Dahar | Tunisia

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

Barcelona | Spain

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Carnival Experience in Trinidad & Tobago

Gîte agrotouristique la Marie-Simonne

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Draw what you drink

Beeswax candles

Cooking workshops Colombian food

Discover Cannes Honey

Botanical printing

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

Photography workshop

Photowalk: Loulé Street Photography

Traditional catalan desserts

Silleteras farms

Herbalism and summer care

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Local cuisine workshop

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

Cultural struggles 

Mosaic workshop in Barcelona

Teimocidade 

Haskap and permaculture

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

THEY TRUST US