CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

  • INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

NEWS

Open Call for CreativeFriendlyDestination® Label

Future of Creative Tourism is shaped a in Perpignan‑Méditerranée

Creative Tourism : Essaouira awarded “Best Creative Living Heritage Destination”

Unveiled 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 FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

Entrevista com Daniela Nikolova, Chefe do Centro de Informação Turística do Município de Gabrovo

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

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

Entretien avec Daniela Nikolova, Responsable du Centre d’Information Touristique de la Municipalité de Gabrovo

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

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

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

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

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

Entretien / Alyssa Phares, Directrice Exécutive de Paducah (États-Unis), de Ville Créative de l’UNESCO au tourisme créatif

Entrevista // LouléCriativo (Portugal) um modelo de desenvolvimento sustentável

Intervista / Alyssa Phares, Direttrice Esecutiva di Paducah (USA): da Città Creativa dell’UNESCO al turismo creativo

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

Intervista con Daniela Nikolova, Responsabile del Centro Informazioni Turistiche del Comune di Gabrovo

Entrevista // LouléCriativo (Portugal) un modelo de desarrollo sostenible

Entrevista amb Daniela Nikolova, Cap del Centre d’Informació Turística de l’Ajuntament de Gabrovo

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

Intervista // LouléCriativo (Portogallo), un modello di sviluppo sostenibile

Entretien // LouléCriativo (Portugal) un modèle de développement durable

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

Entrevista / Alyssa Phares, Directora Executiva de Paducah (EUA), de Ciutat Creativa de la UNESCO al turisme creatiu

Entrevista con Daniela Nikolova, Jefa del Centro de Información Turística del Municipio de Gabrovo

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

Entrevista // LouléCriativo (Portugal) un model de desenvolupament sostenible

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Entrevista / Alyssa Phares Diretora Executiva de Paducah (EUA), de Cidade Criativa da UNESCO ao turismo criativo

Entrevista / Alyssa Phares, Directora Ejecutiva de Paducah (EE. UU.): de Ciudad Creativa de la UNESCO al turismo creativo

Intervista con Maeva Riroroco, Presidente della Camera del Turismo di Rapa Nui (Isola di Pasqua, Chile)

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Art-deco paper jewellery

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

Oyster Knife Making

Online dance with Latoya

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Spinning and weaving of linen

Haskap and permaculture

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

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

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Discover Cannes Honey

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

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Creative leather workshop: design your own custom bag, jewelry or coin purse!

Beeswax candles

Cooking workshops

From Market to Table

Stonemason workshop 

Experiencing authentic Bajan life in Nzuri Eco Retreat (Barbados)

Sfax-Kerkennah | Tunisia

Aromalight workshops

Recife is always carnival 

Traditional dances workshop

Kingston | Jamaica

Oenological games

Catalan castellers

Sculpture workshop

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Traditional catalan desserts

Do It Your Frites

Cévennes cooking workshop

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Workshop for carnival masks

Wood crafting workshop

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Discover ceramic modeling

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Dahar | Tunisia

Teimocidade 

Iloilo | Philippines

Cebu | Philippines

National Museum Cebu

Eco-Art atelier

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

Barcelos inaugura su Casa de la Creatividad

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

Barcelos inaugura la seva Casa de la Creativitat

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Barcelos inaugura la sua Casa della Creatività

Barcelos inaugure sa Maison de la Créativité

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

Barcelos inaugura a Casa da Criatividade

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

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

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