CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

Creative Tourism Network® Honours Essaouira with the “Best Creative Living Heritage Destination”

Unveiling the Winners of the 13th World Creative Tourism Awards

Creative Tourism Triumphs at FITUR 2026

Creative Tourism Network® and Essaouira strengthen their alliance to promote creative tourism ahead of the UNESCO Conference

Call for entries for 13rd 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

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Painting and wine workshops

Fig Trilogy

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Art-deco paper jewellery

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Recife is always carnival 

Hand spinning workshop

Come to Brasilia Teimosa 

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Online dance with Latoya

Living in island of Gods

Introduction to pottery wheel

Catalan cooking class

Arts & Craft Tour in Nevis

Create your own soap

Gîte agrotouristique la Marie-Simonne

Routes through the Commune 13

Oyster Knife Making

Coffee farms

Teimocidade 

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Cebu making space creative workshops

Cebu | Philippines

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Arts & Crafts markets

Barcelos chocolate experience

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Photographic rally in Barcelona

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Create your own upcycled item

Visit of wine estate Domaine Pautier

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Aromalight workshops

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Street art with VSA tour 

Up Fab Lab 3D printing 

Travel sketchbook

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Eco-Art atelier

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

SUCCESS STORIES

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

THEY TRUST US