CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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    CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

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NEWS

CREATIVE TOURISM: CANNES, NEW GLOBAL LEADER!

Salvador da Bahia fosters Creative Tourism

Salvador da Bahia, successful World Conference of Creative Tourism

NEW CreativeFriendlyDestinations Catalogue!

G20 : The Creative Tourism Network invited to share good practices!

Brazil: International Conference on Creative Tourism

Bahrain: Creative Tourism at the UN Tourism World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism

Salvador da Bahia leads the World Creative Tourism Awards!

Creative tourism: Charentes Region – France – receives the CreativeFriendlyDestination label

International Meeting on Creative Tourism – Barcelona, Sept.-Oct. 2025

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

Call for Applications : CreativeFriendlyDestination label

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

NEW CreativeFriendlyDestinations Catalogue!

G20 : The Creative Tourism Network invited to share good practices!

Brazil: International Conference on Creative Tourism

Bahrain: Creative Tourism at the UN Tourism World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism

Salvador da Bahia leads the World Creative Tourism Awards!

Creative tourism: Charentes Region – France – receives the CreativeFriendlyDestination label

International Meeting on Creative Tourism – Barcelona, Sept.-Oct. 2025

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

Call for Applications : CreativeFriendlyDestination label

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!

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CREATIVE FRIENDLY Destinations

INTERVIEWS

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

INTERVIEW with Jiao Hui / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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.

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

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)

Interview with Maeva Riroroco, President of the Rapa Nui, Chamber of Tourism (Easter Island, Isla de Pascua, Chile)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

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

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

Interview with Jingdezhen: Revitalizing a Ceramic Capital through Creative Tourism

INTERVIEW with Jiao Hui / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy

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

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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.

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

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)

Interview with Maeva Riroroco, President of the Rapa Nui, Chamber of Tourism (Easter Island, Isla de Pascua, Chile)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

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CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Arts & Crafts markets

Cooking workshops Colombian food

From grain to bread 

Traditional weaving workshop

Art glass

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Anduze | France

Tozeur | Tunisia

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) | Quebec

Brew your own beer!

Wood carving workshops

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

Discover ceramic modeling

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

La Fille de la Mer – body cosmetics workshop

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Marie Line’s Creative Workshop in Brouage

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Painting and wine workshops

Exotic fruit tour

Oenological games

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec

Ceramist workshop

Quincha Quintil ceramic workshop

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

A countryside experience

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Glass workshop

Cebu making space creative workshops

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Performing tour in Barcelona

Sfax-Kerkennah | Tunisia

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Photography workshops

Introduction to pottery wheel

Iloilo | Philippines

Iron and derivates 

Eco-Art atelier

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Haskap and permaculture

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Arts & Crafts markets

Cooking workshops Colombian food

From grain to bread 

Traditional weaving workshop

Art glass

Nagô ancestrality popular culture 

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

Anduze | France

Tozeur | Tunisia

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) | Quebec

Brew your own beer!

Wood carving workshops

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

Discover ceramic modeling

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

La Fille de la Mer – body cosmetics workshop

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Marie Line’s Creative Workshop in Brouage

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Painting and wine workshops

Exotic fruit tour

Oenological games

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Saint-Jean-Port-Joli | Quebec

Ceramist workshop

Quincha Quintil ceramic workshop

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

A countryside experience

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Glass workshop

Cebu making space creative workshops

Caboclinho 7 flexas 

Performing tour in Barcelona

Sfax-Kerkennah | Tunisia

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Photography workshops

Introduction to pottery wheel

Iloilo | Philippines

Iron and derivates 

Eco-Art atelier

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

Ceramics & other tailor-made crafts

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Haskap and permaculture

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

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SUCCESS STORIES

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

How to Spend 1 Day in the Empordanet: a Creative Itinerary

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

A Oficina de Turismo de La Bisbal d’Empordà ganha o Prémio Catalunha 2023 para a Inovação

The Tourist Board of La Bisbal d’Empordà wins the Innovation Award 2023 of Catalonia

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

La Cité des Électriciens (France) voted “Best Creative Lodging” by the Creative Tourism Awards

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

A Oficina de Turismo de La Bisbal d’Empordà ganha o Prémio Catalunha 2023 para a Inovação

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Quito expands its creative tourism offer through the experiential´Andes Road´

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

How to Spend 1 Day in the Empordanet: a Creative Itinerary

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

A Oficina de Turismo de La Bisbal d’Empordà ganha o Prémio Catalunha 2023 para a Inovação

The Tourist Board of La Bisbal d’Empordà wins the Innovation Award 2023 of Catalonia

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

La Cité des Électriciens (France) voted “Best Creative Lodging” by the Creative Tourism Awards

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

A Oficina de Turismo de La Bisbal d’Empordà ganha o Prémio Catalunha 2023 para a Inovação

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Quito expands its creative tourism offer through the experiential´Andes Road´

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

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