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

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!

Philippines : Creative Tourism Congress

Successful International Conference on Culinary and Creative Tourism – Tunisia

Creative tourism seduces the WTM – London!

The CTN® wins prestigious Awards!

Creative tourism at the UNWTO World Gastronomic Tourism Forum

CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

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

A countryside experience

Biot | France

Cooking workshops Colombian food

Barcelos | Portugal

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Empordà-style decoration workshop

Basketry and wicker 

Traditional bulgarian dances and musics workshop in Gabrovo

Scented candles workshops 

Grape harvesting at Quinta da Tôr

From grain to bread 

Learn to cook in Biot’s communal wood oven (Provence, French Riviera)

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Discover Cannes Honey

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Creative walks

Writing with a goose feather

Regional Folk Dance Workshop 

Aromalight workshops

Wild picking and organic market gardening

Fooding experience

Guerreiros do passo

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

Baguio | Philippines

Kingston | Jamaica

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

Botanical printing

Maracatu raízes de pai adão 

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Traditional catalan desserts

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

Cévennes cooking workshop

Living in island of Gods

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Photographying & revealing creativity

Cocoa beans into chocolate workshop

Rumba rythm

Arts & Crafts markets

My first pottery piece 

Fig Trilogy

Bakery workshop in Saint Jean Port Joli

Antemoro papermaking in Madagascar

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

Raku ceramics craftsmanship

Olive oil workshop

SUCCESS STORIES

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

INTERVIEWS

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

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag