CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

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

NEW CreativeFriendlyDestinations Catalogue!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

Catalan crafts

Oenological games

Cebu making space creative workshops

Silk painting workshop

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

Hand spinning workshop

Creation of leather goods

Bamboo cooking

Coffee farms

Braid making

Come to Brasilia Teimosa 

Living in island of Gods

Introduction to pottery wheel

Nabeul | Tunisia

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Botanical printing

Sining eskinita 

Hubs of creative makers

Wood carving workshops

Embroidery and weaving 

Wood crafting workshop

“Azulejos” tiles painting

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Creative Arts Workshops

Making a Taleigo bag

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Do It Your Frites

Create your own soap

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

Introduction to Western riding

Guerreiros do passo

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Brew your own beer!

Empordanet | Catalonia

Loulé | Portugal

Eco-Art atelier

Bear cave printing 

Traditional dances workshop

Design your own perfumes

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Baguio | Philippines

Catalan wine tasting

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Carnival Experience in Trinidad & Tobago

Cannes | France

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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:

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

THEY TRUST US