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

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

Fig Trilogy

My first pottery piece 

Photographying & revealing creativity

Brew your own beer!

Performing tour 

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

Dry and fresh flower basket and wreath workshop 

Bakery for ritual breads

Valparaíso | Chile

Ceramic workshop at the charming Emo Etar

Coffee roasting workshop

National Museum Cebu

Painting, drawing, engraving workshop

Salsa and tango tours

Making a Taleigo bag

Nicosia | Cyprus

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Medellín | Colombia

Flamenco dance class in Barcelona

Gourmande de nature – Culinary workshop

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

Rumba and sardana dances class

Traditional catalan desserts

Straw marquetry

Catalan castellers

Come to Brasilia Teimosa 

School of Quito – Intarsia workshop : wood inlaying

Teimocidade 

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Miel en mer – beeswax candle making workshop

From alpaca breeding to knitting

Jewelry Lisi Lopez

Snow sculpture in Saint Jean Port Joli – Québec

Recife is always carnival 

Traditional dances workshop

Baguio | Philippines

Tours to enjoy street food

Barcelos creative tourism for seniors

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Biot – Catalog of Creative Experiences

Make your own marbled papers

Stonemason workshop 

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Aromalight workshops

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

Embroidery and weaving 

Routes through the Moravian hill

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

SUCCESS STORIES

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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:

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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.

INTERVIEWS

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)