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)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

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

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: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Teimocidade 

Photographic rally in Barcelona

Introduction to pottery wheel

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Silleteras farms

Fig Trilogy

Bamboo cooking

Grenada Cocoa & Spices Health and Wellness Tour

Art glass

Catalan castellers

Rumba rythm

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Print making with Casa Plan  

Empordanet | Catalonia

Come to Brasilia Teimosa 

Glass workshop

Guerreiros do passo

Beeswax candles

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Painting and wine workshops

Iron and derivates 

Make your own marbled papers

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Hubs of creative makers

The Earth colors

Gourmande de nature – Culinary workshop

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

Bakery for ritual breads

Biot – Catalog of Creative Experiences

Goat’s hair processing

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

Catalan crafts

Perro Sur Graphic Crafts Workshop and Gallery

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Candle making workshops

Design your own perfumes

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Scented candles workshops 

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Basketry and wicker 

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

Workshop Art and Creativity / Writing Art-Nature at Nicole Gravel Workshop & Gallery

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

La Fille de la Mer – body cosmetics workshop

Arts & Craft Tour in Nevis

SUCCESS STORIES

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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