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

Olive oil workshop

Pambiliño Reserve & Educational Farm

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Barcelos imagery

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Cooking workshops

Aromalight workshops

Traditional weaving workshop

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Basketry and wicker 

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

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

Writing with a goose feather

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Coffee workshop with Taller Cafe

Photography workshops

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Medellín | Colombia

Performing tour 

Chocolate workshop in Quito

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Wood carving workshops

Arts & Crafts markets

Empordanet | Catalonia

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

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

Pottery workshop

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Cebu | Philippines

Eco-Art atelier

Create your own upcycled item

Painting and wine workshops

Creative walks

Customize your Anduze vase

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Draw what you drink

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Sculpture workshop

Tours to enjoy street food

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

Baguio | Philippines

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

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?

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

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:

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

INTERVIEWS

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

INTERVIEW / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a City of Gastronomy

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)