Next June 14th – 21st, the Creative Tourism Network® will participate in a serie of events organized in different creative destinations of Quebec, namely the Magdalen Islands, The Laurentides Region, and Montreal. It is no coincidence that the Creative Tourism Network® will visit the Îles de la Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) on June 14th to promote its […]
On Saturday, 1 June, the new headquarters of Loulé Criativo was inaugurated, in the renovated Gama Lobo Palace. This splendid eighteenth-century manor house emblazoned with a coat of arms is considered a landmark in terms of Loulé’s civil architecture. The ceremony was attended by Pedro Siza Vieira, Deputy Minister and Economy. The Gama Lobo Palace […]
The French Ministry of Culture has launched a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on “Tourism is Cultural”, produced in partnership with the CNAM (National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts). This online course aims to promote cultural tourism in the country and prepare professionals for the synergy between both fields. It is the result of a […]
It is always a pleasure to conduct a workshop on Creative Tourism within the Master in Economics and Tourism Management of the CISET (International Centre for Studies on Tourism Economics, Ca’Foscari University of Venice), based in Treviso (Italy). The director of the Creative Tourism Network® conducted a session with students who had the opportunity to design […]
The Network is growing, and there’s still time to join us! We are currently working on the newest edition of our Creative Tourism Catalogue. It is aimed at tour operators, travel agencies and travel advisers, who want to propose authentic and unique experiences worldwide for their customers, with the guarantee that they’ll visit destinations that […]
The director of the Creative Tourism Network®, Caroline Couret, delivered a two-days workshop on creative tourism management for the 32 students of the Bachelor in Tourism and Hospitality from La Rochelle Tourism and Hospitality School- Excelia Group (former Sup de Co), in La Rochelle, France. A theoritical and practical approach gave them the opportunity to learn […]
The director of the Creative Tourism Network® spoke within the International Tay Cities Conference, that took place last March 26th in the Scottish city of Dundee, awarded Creative City of Design by the UNESCO. More than 200 professional and institutional stakeholders attended the event whose aim was to work on a common strategy for the cities […]
Last January 24th, the Secretary General of World Tourism Organization , Zurab Pololikashvili, inaugurated the “2019: Year of Education-Skills and Employment“, at the UNWTO’s headquarters in Madrid. This will be an important year for the creative tourism that, besides of being an economic lever for the territories, is also recognized for its hability to create a value chain […]
The Creative Tourism Network® participated last December 7th -8th at the Seminar on Creative Tourism (Seminario do Turismo Criativo), organized in Recife by the City Council (Prefeitura), with the collaboration of SEBRAE and RECRIA (national creative tourism network), among many other organizations. International experts like the Professor Greg Richards, author of the creative tourism concept, […]
The French Ministry of Culture organized the 2nd Meeting of Cultural Tourism, held on 20th November at the Louvre-Lens, with the aim of “strengthening the link between culture and tourism and offering professionals from both sectors a favorable framework of exchange to the development of synergies and sustainable partnerships.” These meetings enable to deepen the objectives of the interministerial […]
Last November 6th, hundreds of professionals attended the conference on creative tourism organized by the Creative Tourism Network® within the World Travel Market in London. Three decision-makers of three very different kinds of destinations – namely Medellín, Tuscany, and Ibiza, shared their good practices on how to create a value chain through the creative tourism, […]
Les Îles de la Madeleine, located on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Canadian province of Quebec), were recognized CreativeFriendlyDestination(R) by the Creative Tourism Network® (CTN) within the Conference on organized last October 24th, by the public body Tourisme des Îles de la Madeleine. The recognition was delivered to M.Michel Bonato, Tourist Board General Manager, and M. Jason […]
