CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

Call for entries for 15th Creative Tourism Awards

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

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

Interview with Daniela Nikolova, Head of Tourist Information Center Gabrovo Municipality

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

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

INTERVIEW with Carine PATTIER – Wax creator, founder of Ombellessence, Jonzac, Charentes – France.

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Creative Tourism: Interview with Artur Bastos, Head of Division on a substitution basis – Division of Tourism and Cultural Management – of Amarante, Creative City UNESCO

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Create your own soap

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Cámara Lucida

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Spinning and weaving of linen

Living in island of Gods

Basketry and wicker 

Aromalight workshops

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Charentes | France

Print making with Casa Plan  

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

Amulet Making in Thailand

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Olha! Recife

Chocolate workshop in Quito

Live the authentic Saint Vincent lifestyle with NatureFresh Adventures 

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Cebu | Philippines

Coffee roasting workshop

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

Ecological farm visit

Valpoetiza

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Aromalight workshops

Nicosia | Cyprus

Marie Line’s Creative Workshop in Brouage

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

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

Bear cave printing 

Bakery for ritual breads

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Come to Brasilia Teimosa 

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Catalan wine tasting

Routes through the Moravian hill

Local cuisine workshop

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Catalan castellers

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Silk painting workshop

Biot – Catalog of Creative Experiences

Olive oil workshop

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

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

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?

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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!

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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