CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

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

Catalan crafts

Performing tour in Barcelona

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Flamenco dance class in Barcelona

Print making with Casa Plan  

Routes through the Moravian hill

Pottery with Quincha Quintil

Olha! Recife

Eco-Art atelier

Iloilo | Philippines

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Coffee farms

Introduction to pottery wheel

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Travel sketchbook

Customize your Anduze vase

Chocolate workshop in Quito

Sculpture workshop

Aromalight workshops

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Pottery workshops

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Photography school

Herbalism and summer care

Art glass

Art-deco paper jewellery

Making adornments from wool

Silleteras farms

Living in island of Gods

Barcelos chocolate experience

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Olive oil workshop

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Mind Lab crafts

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Cannes | France

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Aromalight workshops

Breads of Barcelos creative city

From Market to Table

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

Glass workshop

SUCCESS STORIES

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

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?

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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