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

Pottery with Quincha Quintil

Cooking workshops

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Dahar | Tunisia

Olive oil workshop

Travel sketchbook

Design your own perfumes

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

Medellín | Colombia

Art Deco scroll sawing workshop

Crazy about the Caribbean Kids Workshop

Do It Your Frites

Bamboo cooking

Photowalk: Loulé Street Photography

Print making with Casa Plan  

Empordanet | Catalonia

Nabeul | Tunisia

Catalan crafts

Sew a Taleigo bag in Loulé

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Salsa and tango tours

Performing tour in Barcelona

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Local cuisine workshop

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Barcelos | Portugal

Charentes | France

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Cultural struggles 

Cebu | Philippines

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Amulet Making in Thailand

Kingston | Jamaica

From grain to bread 

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Wood carving workshops

Create your own upcycled item

Traditional dances workshop

Pottery workshops

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Cévennes cooking workshop

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

Straw marquetry

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Beekeeping workshop in Quito

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

SUCCESS STORIES

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

INTERVIEWS

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

INTERVIEW with Jiao Hui / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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)

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)