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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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 / Angeliki Vasileiadou, Digital Marketing Manager, Nicosia Tourism Board

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

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Marie Line’s Creative Workshop in Brouage

Traditional weaving workshop

Olha! Recife

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Wood crafting workshop

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Rumba rythm

Basketry and wicker 

Print making with Casa Plan  

Ceramist workshop

Catalan crafts

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Pottery workshop at “La Maison du Potier” (The potter’s house)

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Creative Arts Workshops

Straw marquetry

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Cévennes cooking workshop

Photographying & revealing creativity

San Antonio | Texas – U.S.A

Nabeul | Tunisia

Pambiliño Reserve & Educational Farm

Oyster Knife Making

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Barcelos chocolate experience

Flamenco dance class in Barcelona

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Draw what you drink

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Discover ceramic modeling

Visit Timis | Romania

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

OpArt atelier

Routes through the Moravian hill

Beekeeping workshop in Quito

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

Haskap and permaculture

Nicosia | Cyprus

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Spinning and weaving of linen

Coffee farms

SUCCESS STORIES

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

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