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)

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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

Creative Tourism as an All-Inclusive Solution: Spotlight on the UfM’s Conference in Athens

Creative Tourism Featured at UNESCO House Exhibition

Call for Applications : CreativeFriendlyDestination label

Creative Tourism Network® and UNESCO Transcultura launch the Caribbean Creative Tourism Awards

New Orleans Named World’s Best Creative Destination by the Creative Tourism Network®

Creative Tourism, a sustainable driver for UNESCO and European Union.

CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS 2025: A luxury panel of winners!

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

Creative Tourism as an All-Inclusive Solution: Spotlight on the UfM’s Conference in Athens

Creative Tourism Featured at UNESCO House Exhibition

Call for Applications : CreativeFriendlyDestination label

Creative Tourism Network® and UNESCO Transcultura launch the Caribbean Creative Tourism Awards

New Orleans Named World’s Best Creative Destination by the Creative Tourism Network®

Creative Tourism, a sustainable driver for UNESCO and European Union.

CREATIVE TOURISM AWARDS 2025: A luxury panel of winners!

CREATIVE TOURISM: CANNES, NEW GLOBAL LEADER!

Salvador da Bahia fosters Creative Tourism

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CREATIVE FRIENDLY DESTINATIONS

CREATIVE EXPERIENCES

Introduction to pottery wheel

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

Cultural struggles 

Arts & Crafts markets

Bamboo cooking

Mosaic workshop in Barcelona

Traditional music & dances experiences 

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Bakespace cooking workshop 

My first pottery piece 

Discover and taste Empordanet products 

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

Recife is always carnival 

Free guided tours

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Amulet Making in Thailand

Olha! Recife

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

School of Quito – Intarsia workshop : wood inlaying

Beeswax candles

Local cuisine workshop

Writing with a goose feather

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Loulé | Portugal

Fig Trilogy

Cannes | France

Chocolate workshop in Quito

Eco-Art atelier

Kite making workshops for kids 

Living in island of Gods

Photography workshop

Painting and wine workshops

Print making with Casa Plan  

Braid making

Straw marquetry

Nabeul | Tunisia

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Photography school

Culinary arts experiences 

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Forging a rough-forged knife

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

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

Olive oil workshop

Introduction to pottery wheel

Creative writing workshop with Prips

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

Cultural struggles 

Arts & Crafts markets

Bamboo cooking

Mosaic workshop in Barcelona

Traditional music & dances experiences 

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

Bakespace cooking workshop 

My first pottery piece 

Discover and taste Empordanet products 

Working with palm leaves to make plaiters

Recife is always carnival 

Free guided tours

Ceramic with la Maison du Potier 

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Amulet Making in Thailand

Olha! Recife

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

School of Quito – Intarsia workshop : wood inlaying

Beeswax candles

Local cuisine workshop

Writing with a goose feather

Theater museum of puppetry and clown

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

Soap making with la fille de la mer 

Loulé | Portugal

Fig Trilogy

Cannes | France

Chocolate workshop in Quito

Eco-Art atelier

Kite making workshops for kids 

Living in island of Gods

Photography workshop

Painting and wine workshops

Print making with Casa Plan  

Braid making

Straw marquetry

Nabeul | Tunisia

Wool & felt workshop with Miel de Oveja

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Photography school

Culinary arts experiences 

Cartoon drawing masterclass

Forging a rough-forged knife

Grapes of Roussillon in hand and mouth 

Casa Plan: The art of engraving

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

Olive oil workshop

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SUCCESS STORIES

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

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

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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INTERVIEWS

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

INTERVIEW / Angeliki Vasileiadou, Digital Marketing Manager, Nicosia Tourism Board

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

INTERVIEW / Mr. Jiao Hui Creative tourism in Chengdu (China), UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy

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

INTERVIEW with Jiao Hui / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

INTERVIEW / Angeliki Vasileiadou, Digital Marketing Manager, Nicosia Tourism Board

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

INTERVIEW / Mr. Jiao Hui Creative tourism in Chengdu (China), UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy

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

INTERVIEW with Jiao Hui / Inside Chengdu: Creative Tourism in a UNESCO City of Gastronomy

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

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)

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

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