CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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

A countryside experience

Sining eskinita 

Basketry and wicker 

La Fille de la Mer – body cosmetics workshop

Iloilo | Philippines

Scented candles workshops 

The Earth colors

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

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

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

“Azulejos” tiles painting

Haskap and permaculture

Gîte agrotouristique la Marie-Simonne

Biot | France

Writing with a goose feather

Pottery workshop

Visit our artist studios

Sew a Taleigo bag in Loulé

Catalan castellers

Make your own marbled papers

Sandcastle building workshop for kids

Beeswax candles

Creative Arts Workshops

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Rumba rythm

Planting trees in Parque Arví

Creative walks

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Djerba | Tunisia

Aromalight workshops

Rumba and sardana dances class

Hand spinning workshop

Barcelos imagery

Guided tour to a curds workshop 

Travel sketchbook

Create textile pieces to enjoy traditional Catalan festivals in a sewing workshop

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

Straw marquetry

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Painting and wine workshops

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

School of Quito – Intarsia workshop : wood inlaying

Amulet Making in Thailand

Street art with VSA tour 

Fig Trilogy

Cooking Workshop & Spirulina 

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

Print making with Casa Plan  

A half-day in the world of weaving

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

INTERVIEWS

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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