This prestigious competition, organized by IGCAT (International Institute of Gastronomy Culture, Art and Tourism), and headed by the known Best Chef in the World, Joan Roca, as president of the jury, gathered last November 14th, 10 Young European chefs the Escola Universitària d’Hoteleria i Turisme de Sant Pol de Mar (EUHTStPOL), near Barcelona. Representing 10 […]
The city of Lucena, andalousian member of the Creative Tourism Network®, organized last November 24th, a round-table on creative tourism in which participated Juan Ignacio Pulido, coordinator of Lucena Unesco City Of Music project and professor at University of Jaen, Caroline Couret, director of the e Creative Tourism Network®, Juan Carlos Ábalos, executive manager of […]
Ibiza Creativa, the new creative tourism program fostered by the Consell Insular d‘Eivissa (Ibiza Island Council), organized, last November 23rd, a training for the local entrepreneurs to design and promote creative tourism experiences. The President of the Consell Insular, D. Vicent Torres Guash, opened the session, focusing on the immense potential of Ibiza to fit this new demand, thanks to […]
The conference organized by the Creative Tourism Network® within the World Travel Market gathered hundreds of professionals interested in this new tourist trend. They could learn further through the lecture given by Caroline Couret, director of CTN, as well as from the presentations of three representatives of destinations members of the network: Mr. Vincent Torres Guash, President of Consell Insular d’Eivissa (Ibiza Island Council), Mr. Alberto Peruzzini, Director of Toscana Promozione Turistica, and Mrs. Carita Santos, Responsible of Loulé Criativo (Portugal).
The speakers all insisted in the fact that the creative tourism not only offers new opportunities in terms of demand, but represent also a tool of governance for the destinations and the territorial development in general.
Within the conference and in addition to it, the CTN also promoted all the destinations of the network that are offering creative experiences to the travelers worldwide.
The Creative Tourism Awards 2016 were also revealed within this edition of the WTM. They go to:
Best Strategy for Creative Tourism Development: Visit Estonia
Best Creative Destination : Pafos Region Cyprus
Best Creative Travel Agency : Human Connections (Mexico)
Best Creative Residency : La Tavola Marche (Italy)
Best Creative Experiences: The Place (Cyprus)
Further details coming soon!
Last September 16th, the director of the Creative Tourism Network®, Caroline Couret, was invited to speak within the UNWTO Conference on “Marketing trends for digital tourists”, held in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. She focused on the way TICs represent an essential tool for the destinations eager to foster the creative and experiential tourism. The […]
The CTN had the pleasure to present the creative tourism as a new travel modality within the International Seminar on Consumer Trends & the impact on Tourism, organised in Vienna last September 9th, by the European Travel Commission, European Cities Marketing , UNWTO & MODUL University Vienna. 89 delegates from 25 countries attended this event, the majority of whom were managers, […]
The director of the Creative Tourism Network(R), Caroline Couret, participated in a panel within the I International Forum on Tourist Engineering organized in Rabat by the Moroccan Society of Engineering – SMIT – Ministry of Tourism, under the High Patronage of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI. Experts and Ministers focused on the more and more necessary role […]
The director of the Creative Tourism Network(R), Caroline Couret, conducted a workshop on creative tourism for the students of the Master in Tourism Economics and Management of the CISET – International Centre for Studies on Tourism Economics, set up in 1991, as a result of a partnership between Ca’ Foscari University Venice, the Veneto Region and the […]
Last May 24th, we had the pleasure to present a session on creative tourism organized by Visit Finland in Helsinki.<meta http-equiv=”X-Frame-Options” content=”DENY” /> We particularly appreciated the great interest and involvement of the numerous cultural and tourist finnish managers and we would like to congratulate Visit Finland, who, through the program Culture Finland & Luova Matka – Culture Creators […]
Touroperators of Tuscany participated last May 21st in a working session organized by Toscana Promozione in order to involve them in the program, Creative Tourism Tuscany, that will position this italian land of genious, into a new place-to-be for the creative tourists! Read also: Tuscany, Creative Friendly Destination
Tourism professionals and delegates of local governments participated in the Seminar on Creative Tourism organized by the Creative Tourism Network® within the framework of the BTL – International Tourism Fair of Lisbon. Representatives of the Creative Tourism Network®, as well as of destinations like Loulé (Algarve, Portugal) or Porto Alegre (Brazil) shared their experiences and Best practices with stakeholders willing […]
Last January 22th, the Minister of Tourism of Morocco, Mr. Lahcen Haddad received the Creative Tourism Award for the Best Strategy in Creative Tourism Development, within FITUR-Madrid, for a project presented by the Morrocan Tourism Ingeneering and Investment Society. These awards, created by the Creative Tourism Network®, are designed to reward institutions and private initiatives, worldwide that […]
