CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

  • RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

    RESEARCH + DEVELOPMENT + INNOVATION (R+D+i)

NEWS

CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS 2025: A luxury panel of winners!

CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS 2025 … And the winners are… !

Call for Applications : CreativeFriendlyDestination label

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

Webinar on UNTourismQuest Certification: an opportunity for DMOs:

UNESCO : Barcelos, world creative meeting-point

UN Tourism Congress: Andorra, Creative Destination for Mountain Tourism!

Fitur is committed to creative tourism – orange tourism

Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) awarded “World Best Creative Destination”

Successful experiential press and fam trips!

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

Medellín | Colombia

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Stained glass workshop “I Did It Myself”

Traditional Weaving in Thailand

Brew your own beer!

Chocolate workshop in Quito

Print making with Casa Plan  

Make your own marbled papers

Iron and derivates 

Culinary arts experiences 

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Tours to enjoy street food

Shape your Catalan art ceramics

My first pottery piece 

Sculpture workshop

Creation of a drop-down book in star format in an art-studio at the Poble Espanyol

Traditional catalan desserts

A half-day in the world of weaving

“Azulejos” tiles painting

Basketry and wicker 

Living in island of Gods

Art-deco paper jewellery

Aromalight workshops

Anduze | France

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Create your own upcycled item

Molding the clay on the Potter’s Wheel

Pottery workshop with Show d’Boucane 

Cooking class: your own bulgarian specialities

Botanical printing

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

Straw marquetry

Dahar | Tunisia

Cultural struggles 

Cooking workshops Colombian food

Hubs of creative makers

Customize your Anduze vase

Candle making workshops

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

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Introduction to pottery wheel

Biot – Catalog of Creative Experiences

Routes through the Commune 13

Gîte agrotouristique la Marie-Simonne

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Ecological farm visit

Silleteras farms

SUCCESS STORIES

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

INTERVIEWS

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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