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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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)

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Baguio city creative forum 

Silleteras farms

Nabeul | Tunisia

Learn at the ceramic school in La Bisbal

Ecological farm visit

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

My first pottery piece 

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Mosaic workshop in Barcelona

Traditional weaving workshop

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec

Online dance with Latoya

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Oyster Knife Making

Scented candles workshops 

Guerreiros do passo

Silk painting workshop

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

Crazy about the Caribbean Kids Workshop

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

A countryside experience

Making a Taleigo bag

Customize your Anduze vase

Barcelos pottery

Grandma’s Cooking – Barcelona

Herbalism and summer care

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

Cultural struggles 

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Wood carving workshops

We’ve crochet café knitting workshop 

Performing tour 

Photography workshop

Sfax-Kerkennah | Tunisia

Creative walks

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Design your own perfumes

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Local cuisine workshop

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Iron and derivates 

Introduction to Western riding

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Bamboo cooking

Discover and taste Empordanet products 

SUCCESS STORIES

Barcelos inaugura a Casa da Criatividade

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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.

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Barcelos inaugura la seva Casa de la Creativitat

Barcelos inaugure sa Maison de la Créativité

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

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

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

Barcelos inaugura la sua Casa della Creatività

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

Barcelos inaugura su Casa de la Creatividad

THEY TRUST US