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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Silk painting workshop

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Design your own perfumes

Nabeul | Tunisia

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Cosmetic workshop

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Basketry and wicker 

Silleteras farms

Chocolate workshop in Quito

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

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Quincha Quintil ceramic workshop

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

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

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Sculpture workshop

Sining eskinita 

Amulet Making in Thailand

Aromalight workshops

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

Anduze | France

Loulé | Portugal

Making a Taleigo bag

Cebu | Philippines

National Museum Cebu

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Barcelos chocolate experience

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Photography workshop

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

Bakery for ritual breads

Do It Your Frites

Tours to enjoy street food

Coffee workshop with Taller Cafe

Photographic rally in Barcelona

Pottery workshop at “La Maison du Potier” (The potter’s house)

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Wines and vines experiences 

Oenological games

Catalan crafts

Travel sketchbook

Crazy about the Caribbean Kids Workshop

SUCCESS STORIES

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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