CREATIVE TOURISM NETWORK®

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

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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

Algarve Cataplana

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Oenological games

Around Louvre-Lens | France

Rumba rythm

Beeswax candles

Breads of Barcelos creative city

“Loulé´s Designers” , creative residence

Performing tour 

Traditional weaving workshop

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Catalan cooking class

Pottery with Quincha Quintil

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

From grain to bread 

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Mind Lab crafts

Pottery workshop

Make your own marbled papers

Making adornments from wool

Fig Trilogy

My first pottery piece 

Olha! Recife

Writing with a goose feather

Quincha Quintil ceramic workshop

“Tapas” workshop in Barcelona

Goat’s hair processing

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Photographic Route in Loulé (Portugal)

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Traditional music & dances experiences 

Create your own soap

Hubs of creative makers

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Braid making

Antemoro papermaking in Madagascar

Ceramic workshop in Thailand

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Bamboo Weaving in Thailand

Cyanotype with Algarve Flora Elements

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

Empordanet | Catalonia

Merit Creation in Thailand

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Pottery workshops

Ceramic, drawing & jewelry workshop with Sanaa Studio 

Candle making workshops

Graphic audiovisual art with Perro Sur 

SUCCESS STORIES

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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.

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

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

INTERVIEWS

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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