CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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!

Fitur is committed to creative tourism – orange tourism

Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) awarded “World Best Creative Destination”

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Cannes | France

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Exotic fruit tour

Beeswax candles

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Djerba | Tunisia

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Introduction to pottery wheel

Sining eskinita 

Cooking workshops

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Photographying & revealing creativity

Art Deco scroll sawing workshop

Create your own soap

Making a Taleigo bag

Bakery for ritual breads

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Design your own perfumes

Catalan castellers

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Hubs of creative makers

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Ceramist workshop

Catalan cooking class

Routes through the Commune 13

Empordanet | Catalonia

Rumba and sardana dances class

Body expression

Spinning and weaving of linen

Performing tour in Barcelona

Coffee farms

Tozeur | Tunisia

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Nicosia | Cyprus

Catalan wine tasting

La Fille de la Mer – body cosmetics workshop

Barcelona | Spain

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

My first pottery piece 

Cámara Lucida

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Visit of a pottery workshop 

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

SUCCESS STORIES

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

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

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

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

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

INTERVIEWS

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)