CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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

Do It Your Frites

Workshop for carnival masks

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Kingston | Jamaica

Discover ceramic modeling

Haskap and permaculture

Exotic fruit tour

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Antemoro papermaking in Madagascar

Teimocidade 

Planting trees in Parque Arví

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

Lantern Making in Thailand

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Goat’s hair processing

Flamenco dance class in Barcelona

National Museum Cebu

Photography workshops

Wines and vines experiences 

Performing tour in Barcelona

Ecological farm visit

Bear cave printing 

Pottery workshop

Algarve Cataplana

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Catalan wine tasting

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Beeswax candles

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Come to Brasilia Teimosa 

Body expression

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Free guided tours

Catalan castellers

Nicosia | Cyprus

Valpoetiza

Creation of a drop-down book in star format in an art-studio at the Poble Espanyol

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Medellín | Colombia

Sfax-Kerkennah | Tunisia

Make your own marbled papers

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Visit our artist studios

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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.

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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?

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

INTERVIEWS

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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