CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

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”

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Beeswax candles

Scented candles workshops 

Photowalk: Loulé Street Photography

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Herbalism and summer care

Hand spinning workshop

Street art with VSA tour 

Making a wicker basket

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Fooding experience

Cannes | France

Planting trees in Parque Arví

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Rumba and sardana dances class

OpArt atelier

Salsa and tango tours

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Goat’s hair processing

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Visit of wine estate Domaine Pautier

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Ceramist workshop

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Create textile pieces to enjoy traditional Catalan festivals in a sewing workshop

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Arts & Crafts markets

Loulé | Portugal

Creation of leather goods

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Local cuisine workshop

Olha! Recife

My first pottery piece 

Nicosia | Cyprus

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Cultural struggles 

Traditional dances workshop

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Culinary arts experiences 

Merit Creation in Thailand

Pottery workshops

Amulet Making in Thailand

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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:

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)