CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

  • INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

NEWS

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 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!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Pottery workshops

Recife is always carnival 

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Routes through the Commune 13

Cannes | France

Dahar | Tunisia

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Silk painting workshop

Barcelos imagery

Online dance with Latoya

Step into the soul of Belize through hands-on cultural immersion

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Algarve Cataplana

Making adornments from wool

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Routes through the Moravian hill

Bakery for ritual breads

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Cosmetic workshop

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

Saint Honorat island wine tastings

Create your own upcycled item

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Barcelos chocolate experience

Do It Your Frites

Braid making

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

Spinning and weaving of linen

Culinary arts experiences 

Lantern Making in Thailand

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Iloilo | Philippines

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Discover ceramic modeling

Baguio | Philippines

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

Kite making workshops for kids 

Sining eskinita 

Traditional catalan desserts

SUCCESS STORIES

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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:

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

THEY TRUST US