CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

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

Algarve Cataplana

Loulé | Portugal

Amulet Making in Thailand

Cannes | France

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Barcelos imagery

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Djerba | Tunisia

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Workshops for musical production, mixing in Ibiza!

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Iloilo | Philippines

Living in island of Gods

Beeswax candles

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

Lantern Making in Thailand

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Street art with VSA tour 

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Traditional catalan desserts

Introduction to pottery wheel

Cooking workshops Colombian food

Olive oil workshop

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Haskap and permaculture

Art-deco paper jewellery

Olha! Recife

Wood crafting workshop

Kite making workshops for kids 

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

A half-day in the world of weaving

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Hubs of creative makers

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

Pottery workshop

Performing tour in Barcelona

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

Nicosia | Cyprus

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Bear cave printing 

Barcelona | Spain

SUCCESS STORIES

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

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

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

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)