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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative 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 with Ivana Jelinčić, World Championship in Olive Picking (Postira, Brač Island, Croatia)

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Kaïros, the Gallery of Bowls (Charentes, France)

Fig Trilogy

Arts & Crafts markets

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Hand spinning workshop

Saint Honorat island wine tastings

OpArt atelier

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Around Louvre-Lens | France

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Catalan wine tasting

Art-deco paper jewellery

Crazy about the Caribbean Kids Workshop

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

“Come Leh We Go to Tobago” – Patriotic T&T

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Iloilo | Philippines

Grenada Cocoa & Spices Health and Wellness Tour

Cámara Lucida

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

Gourmande de nature – Culinary workshop

Barcelos chocolate experience

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Workshop Art and Creativity / Writing Art-Nature at Nicole Gravel Workshop & Gallery

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Catalan castellers

Lobster trap fabrication at Musée de l’Île d’Entrée

Spinning and weaving of linen

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Visit our artist studios

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Cebu | Philippines

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Dahar | Tunisia

Rumba rythm

Visit of wine estate Domaine Pautier

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Customize your Anduze vase

Live the authentic Saint Vincent lifestyle with NatureFresh Adventures 

Wood Carving Workshop

Recife is always carnival 

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

THEY TRUS US