CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

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

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

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Making a wicker basket

Catalan cooking class

Visit our artist studios

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Hubs of creative makers

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

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

Photographying & revealing creativity

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Cebu | Philippines

Silk painting workshop

Oenological games

Kite making workshops for kids 

Chocolate workshop in Quito

Coffee workshop with Taller Cafe

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Catalan wine tasting

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

Nicosia | Cyprus

Quincha Quintil ceramic workshop

Discover and taste Empordanet products 

Spinning and weaving of linen

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Performing tour in Barcelona

Wild picking and organic market gardening

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

Empordanet | Catalonia

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Make your own marbled papers

Gîte agrotouristique la Marie-Simonne

Braid making

Eco-Art atelier

Come to Brasilia Teimosa 

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Iloilo | Philippines

Photography school

Routes through the Moravian hill

Barcelos pottery

Planting trees in Parque Arví

Arts & Crafts markets

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Creation of leather goods

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

Step into the soul of Belize through hands-on cultural immersion

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

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

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

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

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

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