Last Friday 24 March, The Empordanet (Catalonia) was nominated "Creative Friendly Destination" by the  Creative Tourism Network®.

Under the name "Visit Empordanet", the municipalities of  la Bisbal d'Empordà, Forallac, Cruïlles, Monells i Sant Sadurní de l'Heura, Corçà i Ullastret and have created a program of creative tourism as part of their strategic plan for the local economic development, in order to make more visible the tourist offer linking tourism and crafts, within the international markets. And no doubt that the Empordanet has all the ingredients to attract creative tourists from all over the world.

“beyond its natural beauty, the  Empordanet area owns tangible and intangible cultural assets to become a creative tourism destination, as well as the voluntee  and vision  to clearly  position the destination in this growing segment worldwide. “

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The potential of Salvador de Bahia to attract the creative tourists doesn't need t be demonstrated!

Whether it deals with learning brazilian percussions or dance, participating in a Bahian cooking class, making a writing retreat, an art residenncy or just feeling inspired by its creative atmosphere, the city has always been a place-to-be for the most arty travellers!

It is thus natural that Salvador de Bahia and the Creative Tourism Network® collaborate to generate sinergies from the creative tourism. This project was born wihin the BTL fair in Lisboa,with Mrs. Regina Ahmed, director of Bahiatursa.

As every year, we had the pleasure to conduct a workshop on creative tourism within the Master in Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development , a program organized by the University of Barcelona, the University of Torino and the International Formation Center of the OIT, in collaboration with UNESCO’s Center of World Heritage; both organizations are part of the United Nations.

We seize the opportunity to congratulate these young professionals from all over the world for the brilliant projects they designed and presented within the session! 

The Creative Tourism Network® is pleased to collaborate with the UOC MA in Sustainable Tourism and ICT - Creative Tourism, Creative Destinations - innovative online training through which international students can develop their knowledges in this emerging sector, as well as to work on practical cases.+info

 The Creative Tourism Network® participated, together with members and partners from Loulé, Austria and  Galicia at the Seminar on Creative Tourism organized last March 22d by the professor Carlos Fernandes, from the Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo and the city of Esposende (Portugal).

A great opportunity to reflect on the relevance of the creative tourism as a new tourist offer for Portugal.  

Last March 15th-18th, we promoted our member's destinations and creative offers within the at the BTL - International Tourist Fair in Lisbon, though a tight schedule of B2B meetings and press campaign.  

In addition ot it, new members will join the network in brief!

Whether you are currently applyinig for responsible tourism grants, creative cities programs, or cooperation funds, be sure that the creative tourism can provide sustainable and innovative contents to your projects. 

Please feel free to  contact us for further informations or documents. 

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The Creative Tourism Network® is pleased to collaborate with the International Conference:The State of the Art in Creative Tourism to be held next June 1 - 2 in Curia (Coimbra, Portugal). 

The conference, organized within the program CREATOUR, aims to bring together leading creative tourism researchers with creative tourism bodies and practitioners to outline “the state of the art” – the main lines of research and key issues in both the research and practice of creative tourism. 

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We are proud to announce our collaboration with the presitigious Indian magazineTouriosity Travelmag, a reference within the indian tourist market.

Every month, a section of Touriosity will be exclusively devoted to the presentation of a destination member of the Creative Tourism Network®, in order to offer the Indian lectors (and travellers) a selection of creative activities and destinations worldwide.

Touriosity will be associated to the events organized by the CTN.

Other partnerships of this kind will be announced soon in other countries.

For many - and good - reasons, among them:

• To launch or foster your creative tourism program thanks to the assessment, communication and press services of the Network.

• To belong to a Network whose common denominator is the excellence to promote a new kind of tourism based on quality and authenticity...

We have created new membership categories to fit your needs. Please, find further details here, or feel free to contact us:

info@creativetourismnetwork.org