CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

  • RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

    RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

NEWS

The Creative Tourism Network® invites destinations from all over the world to apply for the CreativeFriendlyDestination® label.

Open Call for CreativeFriendlyDestination® Label

Future of Creative Tourism is shaped a in Perpignan‑Méditerranée

Creative Tourism : Essaouira awarded “Best Creative Living Heritage Destination”

Unveiled 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 FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

Entretien // LouléCriativo (Portugal) un modèle de développement durable

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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

Entrevista / Alyssa Phares, Directora Ejecutiva de Paducah (EE. UU.): de Ciudad Creativa de la UNESCO al turismo creativo

Entrevista // LouléCriativo (Portugal) um modelo de desenvolvimento sustentável

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

Intervista // LouléCriativo (Portogallo), un modello di sviluppo sostenibile

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

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

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

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

Entrevista / Alyssa Phares, Directora Executiva de Paducah (EUA), de Ciutat Creativa de la UNESCO al turisme creatiu

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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?

Intervista con Maeva Riroroco, Presidente della Camera del Turismo di Rapa Nui (Isola di Pasqua, Chile)

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

Intervista / Alyssa Phares, Direttrice Esecutiva di Paducah (USA): da Città Creativa dell’UNESCO al turismo creativo

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

Entrevista // LouléCriativo (Portugal) un model de desenvolupament sostenible

Entretien / Alyssa Phares, Directrice Exécutive de Paducah (États-Unis), de Ville Créative de l’UNESCO au tourisme créatif

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Entrevista // LouléCriativo (Portugal) un modelo de desarrollo sostenible

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

Entrevista / Alyssa Phares Diretora Executiva de Paducah (EUA), de Cidade Criativa da UNESCO ao turismo criativo

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Photographic rally in Barcelona

Living in island of Gods

Baguio | Philippines

Spinning and weaving of linen

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Street art with VSA tour 

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Creative Arts Workshops

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Teimocidade 

Rumba rythm

Catalan castellers

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Lobster trap fabrication at Musée de l’Île d’Entrée

Grenada Cocoa & Spices Health and Wellness Tour

Online dance with Latoya

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Recife is always carnival 

Olha! Recife

Catalan crafts

Djerba | Tunisia

Making adornments from wool

Barcelos imagery

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

Crazy about the Caribbean Kids Workshop

Creative walks

Cooking workshops Colombian food

Visit our artist studios

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Routes through the Moravian hill

Introduction to pottery wheel

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Herbalism and summer care

Writing with a goose feather

Iron and derivates 

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Photography workshop

Photography school

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Cévennes cooking workshop

Oyster Knife Making

Painting and wine workshops

Empordanet | Catalonia

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Traditional dances workshop

Cannes | France

SUCCESS STORIES

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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:

Gabrovo Carnival, an International Cultural Landmark

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

THEY TRUST US