CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

Call for entries for 15th 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!

G20 : The Creative Tourism Network invited to share good practices!

Brazil: International Conference on Creative Tourism

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Interview with Maeva Riroroco, President of the Rapa Nui, Chamber of Tourism (Easter Island, Isla de Pascua, Chile)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

Cévennes cooking workshop

Loulé | Portugal

Writing with a goose feather

Lantern Making in Thailand

Iron and derivates 

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Performing tour 

Art glass

Introduction to pottery wheel

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Barcelona | Spain

Traditional dances workshop

Carnival Experience in Trinidad & Tobago

Perro Sur Graphic Crafts Workshop and Gallery

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Make your own marbled papers

Catalan crafts

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Anduze | France

Making a Taleigo bag

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Print making with Casa Plan  

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

Olive oil workshop

Pottery workshop

Learn to cook in Biot’s communal wood oven (Provence, French Riviera)

Fig Trilogy

Rumba and sardana dances class

Visit our artist studios

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Forging a rough-forged knife

OpArt atelier

Local cuisine workshop

Glass workshop

Making a wicker basket

Experiencing authentic culture in Trinidad & Tobago with Pure Lopino Tours

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

The Tourist Board of La Bisbal d’Empordà wins the Innovation Award 2023 of Catalonia

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

Quito expands its creative tourism offer through the experiential´Andes Road´

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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