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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

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

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

INTERVIEW: Talks on Sapporo, UNESCO City of Media Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

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

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 / 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Create your own upcycled item

Botanical printing

Survival day: return to -450,000 years

Creative programming of our festivals & museum

Cévennes cooking workshop

Kingston | Jamaica

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Iloilo | Philippines

Rumba rythm

Visit of a pottery workshop 

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Kaïros, the Gallery of Bowls (Charentes, France)

Coffee workshop with Taller Cafe

Introduction to Western riding

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Bakespace cooking workshop 

Gourmande de nature – Culinary workshop

Iron and derivates 

Traditional dances workshop

Lantern Making in Thailand

Recife | Brazil

Olive oil workshop

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Goat’s hair processing

Djerba | Tunisia

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Mosaic workshop in Barcelona

A countryside experience

Haskap and permaculture

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

Step into the soul of Belize through hands-on cultural immersion

Making adornments from wool

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

Visit our artist studios

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Spinning and weaving of linen

Living in island of Gods

Art-deco paper jewellery

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Empordanet | Catalonia

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Dahar | Tunisia

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Arts & Craft Tour in Nevis

Crazy about the Caribbean Kids Workshop

Algarve Cataplana

Cooking workshops Colombian food

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Barcelos inaugura la sua Casa della Creatività

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Les Îles de la Madeleine: un modèle de tourisme créatif

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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

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:

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Barcelos inaugura su Casa de la Creatividad

Barcelos inaugura a Casa da Criatividade

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

Barcelos inaugura la seva Casa de la Creativitat

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

THEY TRUST US