CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

  • INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
    INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

NEWS

Creative Tourism Network® Invited as a Special Partner of the 19th ECTN Conference in Skiathos

GABROVO (Bulgaria) shines as a Global Creative Tourism Leader, hosting the UNESCO Creative Cities Conference on Crafts and Folk Art

OPEN CALL: The Creative Tourism Network® invites destinations from all over the world to apply for the 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 FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

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

Creative Tourism in Charentes (France) : Interview with Leather Artistry of FREYA, “Crafting the Soul of the Charentes”

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

Creative Tourism in Charentes (France): Interview with Séverine Fauvel / @Mon Tendre Atelier

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

CANNES Creative Tourism: Interview with Laure Toma, Leisure Tourism Director, Cannes Visitors Bureau,

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

Creative Tourism in Charentes (France): Interview with Jean‑Louis Laboissière, Les Hauts de Talmont: A Creative Wine Experience in Charentes (France)

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

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

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Charentes Region (France) : Interview with Sarah Dupuis, ceramist “Shaping the Essence of the Charenes”

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Creative Tourism in Les Charentes, France: Interview with Kevin Prat, Les Fleurs de Roussillon: Celebrating Nature Through Creative Floral Experiences

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Visit our artist studios

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

Design your own perfumes

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Cévennes cooking workshop

Barcelona | Spain

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Olive oil workshop

My first pottery piece 

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

From Market to Table

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Photographic rally in Barcelona

Olha! Recife

Hubs of creative makers

Cebu | Philippines

Glass workshop

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Herbalism and summer care

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Workshop for carnival masks

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Tour of Port of Spain infused with a taste of Trini

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

Aromalight workshops

Kingston | Jamaica

Living in island of Gods

Oyster Knife Making

Wood carving workshops

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Amulet Making in Thailand

Algarve Cataplana

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

“Azulejos” tiles painting

Pottery workshop

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Sculpture workshop

Bamboo cooking

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Coffee workshop with Taller Cafe

Cannes | France

Iloilo | Philippines

Catalan crafts

SUCCESS STORIES

Creative Tourism: Ljubljana Named Europe’s Best Creative City Destination!

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Gabrovo Carnival, an International Cultural Landmark

“Barranquilla Recognized as the World’s Best Creative Destination by the Creative Tourism Network®, and Its Carnival Named the World’s Best Creative Event”!

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

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

THEY TRUST US