CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

  • RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

    RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

NEWS

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

Bahrain: Creative Tourism at the UN Tourism World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Interview with Maeva Riroroco, President of the Rapa Nui, Chamber of Tourism (Easter Island, Isla de Pascua, Chile)

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

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 with Daniela Nikolova, Head of Tourist Information Center Gabrovo Municipality

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

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

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Thai Creative Art in Thailand

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

Dahar | Tunisia

Recife is always carnival 

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Mosaic workshop in Barcelona

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) | Quebec

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Photographic rally in Barcelona

Draw what you drink

OpArt atelier

Ceramist workshop

Glass workshop

Creative walks

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

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

Creative leather workshop: design your own custom bag, jewelry or coin purse!

Marie Line’s Creative Workshop in Brouage

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Creation of a drop-down book in star format in an art-studio at the Poble Espanyol

Perro Sur Graphic Crafts Workshop and Gallery

School of Quito – Intarsia workshop : wood inlaying

La Fille de la Mer – body cosmetics workshop

A half-day in the world of weaving

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Carnival Experience in Trinidad & Tobago

Coffee farms

Oyster Knife Making

Barcelos | Portugal

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Wood carving workshops

Barcelos imagery

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Cebu | Philippines

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Crazy about the Caribbean Kids Workshop

“Come Leh We Go to Tobago” – Patriotic T&T

Biot | France

My first pottery piece 

Grenada Cocoa & Spices Health and Wellness Tour

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Making a wicker basket

Rumba and sardana dances class

Straw marquetry

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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?

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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