CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

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

Salvador da Bahia, successful World Conference of Creative Tourism

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Loulé | Portugal

Kaïros, the Gallery of Bowls (Charentes, France)

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

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

My first pottery piece 

Goat’s hair processing

From grain to bread 

Djerba | Tunisia

Marie Line’s Creative Workshop in Brouage

Iloilo | Philippines

Performing tour 

Bear cave printing 

Forging a rough-forged knife

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Cebu | Philippines

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Haskap and permaculture

Workshop for carnival masks

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Spinning and weaving of linen

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Brew your own beer!

Rumba rythm

Traditional catalan desserts

Wood crafting workshop

Routes through the Commune 13

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

Embroidery and weaving 

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Cebu making space creative workshops

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Breads of Barcelos creative city

Medellín | Colombia

Draw what you drink

Cooking workshops

“Azulejos” tiles painting

Catalan crafts

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Eco-Art atelier

Empordanet | Catalonia

Discover Cannes Honey

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Making adornments from wool

Oyster Knife Making

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

Nabeul | Tunisia

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Painting and wine workshops

SUCCESS STORIES

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

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

THEY TRUST US