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

Glass workshop

Art-deco paper jewellery

Create your own soap

Rumba and sardana dances class

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Saint Honorat island wine tastings

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Draw what you drink

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Workshops for musical production, mixing in Ibiza!

Fig Trilogy

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Living in island of Gods

Make your own marbled papers

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Thai Creative Art in Thailand

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Empordanet | Catalonia

Cannes | France

Illustration workshop with Calamina

The Earth colors

Planting trees in Parque Arví

Beekeeping workshop in Quito

Creative Arts Workshops

My first pottery piece 

Art glass

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Creative walks

Ecological farm visit

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

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Routes through the Commune 13

Biot – Catalog of Creative Experiences

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Hubs of creative makers

Embroidery and weaving 

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Traditional dances workshop

“Tapas” workshop in Barcelona

Lantern Making in Thailand

Fooding experience

Algarve Cataplana

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

Cartoon drawing masterclass

SUCCESS STORIES

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 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:

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

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

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

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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