CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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NEWS

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 TOURISM: CANNES, NEW GLOBAL LEADER!

Salvador da Bahia fosters Creative Tourism

CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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: 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.

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Scented candles workshops 

Haskap and permaculture

Workshop for carnival masks

Experiencing authentic culture in Trinidad & Tobago with Pure Lopino Tours

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

Botanical printing

Wines and vines experiences 

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

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Tasting and creation of crazy salts 

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Pottery workshops

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Carnival Experience in Trinidad & Tobago

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

National Museum Cebu

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Sfax-Kerkennah | Tunisia

Aromalight workshops

Recife is always carnival 

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Baguio city creative forum 

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Performing tour 

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Photography school

Glass workshop

Writing with a goose feather

Arts & Craft Tour in Nevis

Olha! Recife

Routes through the Moravian hill

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Visit Timis | Romania

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Spinning and weaving of linen

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Dahar | Tunisia

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Design your own perfumes

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Visit our artist studios

My first pottery piece 

Make your own marbled papers

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Barcelos inaugura su Casa de la Creatividad

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

Barcelos inaugura a Casa da Criatividade

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Barcelos inaugure sa Maison de la Créativité

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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:

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

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

Barcelos inaugura la sua Casa della Creatività

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

Barcelos inaugura la seva Casa de la Creativitat

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

THEY TRUST US