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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Empordà-style decoration workshop

“Azulejos” tiles painting

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Fooding experience

Cévennes cooking workshop

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

Basketry and wicker 

Dive into a potter’s workshop

Recife is always carnival 

Visit our artist studios

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Embroidery and weaving 

Botanical printing

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

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

Barcelos pottery

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Cultural struggles 

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Sew a Taleigo bag in Loulé

Introduction to pottery wheel

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Goat’s hair processing

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Art-deco paper jewellery

Cannes | France

Routes through the Commune 13

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

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

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

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

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Grenada Cocoa & Spices Health and Wellness Tour

Baguio city creative forum 

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Tozeur | Tunisia

Aromalight workshops

Traditional dances workshop

Pottery workshops

Make your own marbled papers

Up Fab Lab 3D printing 

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Cooking workshops Colombian food

A half-day in the world of weaving

Experiencing authentic culture in Trinidad & Tobago with Pure Lopino Tours

SUCCESS STORIES

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Barcelos inaugura a Casa da Criatividade

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

Barcelos inaugura la seva Casa de la Creativitat

Barcelos inaugura su Casa de la Creatividad

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Barcelos inaugura la sua Casa della Creatività

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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:

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

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

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

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:

Barcelos inaugure sa Maison de la Créativité

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

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

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

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