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

Performing tour in Barcelona

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Bear cave printing 

Writing with a goose feather

School of Quito – Intarsia workshop : wood inlaying

Free guided tours

Rumba and sardana dances class

Discover ceramic modeling

Barcelos chocolate experience

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Introduction to pottery wheel

Ceramist workshop

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Pottery with Quincha Quintil

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

Recife | Brazil

Tozeur | Tunisia

Stonemason workshop 

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

Algarve Cataplana

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

Living in island of Gods

Beeswax candles

Cosmetic workshop

Come to Brasilia Teimosa 

Braid making

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Thai Creative Art in Thailand

Iron and derivates 

Sfax-Kerkennah | Tunisia

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

Introduction to Western riding

“Tapas” workshop in Barcelona

Performing tour 

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Medellín | Colombia

Empordanet | Catalonia

Christmas ornament blowing workshop

Traditional catalan desserts

Barcelos pottery

Traditional dances workshop

Tam-Awan village art workshops 

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Tours to enjoy street food

Pottery workshop

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

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

INTERVIEWS

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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)

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)