CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

  • SDG-creativetourism

    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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

Wines and vines experiences 

Embroidery and weaving 

Performing tour in Barcelona

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Mind Lab crafts

Sining eskinita 

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

Making a Taleigo bag

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Customize your Anduze vase

Fig Trilogy

Up Fab Lab 3D printing 

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Traditional dances workshop

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Introduction to pottery wheel

Creative Arts Workshops

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Around Louvre-Lens | France

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Pottery with Quincha Quintil

From grain to bread 

Routes through the Commune 13

Aromalight workshops

Barcelos chocolate experience

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Cultural struggles 

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

OpArt atelier

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Create textile pieces to enjoy traditional Catalan festivals in a sewing workshop

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Catalan castellers

Algarve Cataplana

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Saint Honorat island wine tastings

Silk painting workshop

Ceramist workshop

Living in island of Gods

Perro Sur Graphic Crafts Workshop and Gallery

Performing tour 

Sculpture workshop

Stonemason workshop 

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

SUCCESS STORIES

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

INTERVIEWS

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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