CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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 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!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Cosmetic workshop

Hand spinning workshop

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Exotic fruit tour

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Rumba rythm

Catalan crafts

Travel sketchbook

Catalan castellers

Planting trees in Parque Arví

Traditional dances workshop

Gîte agrotouristique la Marie-Simonne

Discover and taste Empordanet products 

Lobster trap fabrication at Musée de l’Île d’Entrée

Writing with a goose feather

Teimocidade 

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Kite making workshops for kids 

Live the authentic Saint Vincent lifestyle

Barcelos pottery

Empordà-style decoration workshop

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

Haskap and permaculture

From grain to bread 

Olive oil workshop

Aromalight workshops

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Iron and derivates 

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Cebu | Philippines

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Glass workshop

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

Art-deco paper jewellery

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Barcelona | Spain

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Art Deco scroll sawing workshop

A countryside experience

Hubs of creative makers

Pambiliño Reserve & Educational Farm

Saint Honorat island wine tastings

Workshop for carnival masks

Body expression

Experiencing authentic culture in Trinidad & Tobago with Pure Lopino Tours

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

SUCCESS STORIES

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

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´

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

INTERVIEWS

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

INTERVIEW with Jiao Hui / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy

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

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag