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

Making a wicker basket

Kingston | Jamaica

Algarve Cataplana

Gabrovo | Bulgaria

Kite making workshops for kids 

School of Quito – Intarsia workshop : wood inlaying

Iron and derivates 

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

A countryside experience

Valpoetiza

“Tapas” workshop in Barcelona

Glass workshop in Gabrovo (Bulgaria)

Stonemason workshop 

Modeling technique of a small stoneware piece 

Cooking workshops

Making adornments from wool

Antemoro papermaking in Madagascar

Illustration workshop with Calamina

Scented and Floral Vegetable Candle Making Workshop with Ombellessence

Visit of wine estate Domaine Pautier

My first pottery piece 

Fig Trilogy

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Silk painting workshop

Around Louvre-Lens | France

Living in island of Gods

Tozeur | Tunisia

Watercolour workshop with Diane Boilard

Writing with a goose feather

Cannes | France

Paint the galo de Barcelos

Bumi & Ashe pottery

Raku and pottery workshop at Show d’Boucane

Coffee roasting workshop

Wood crafting workshop

Workshop Art and Creativity / Writing Art-Nature at Nicole Gravel Workshop & Gallery

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Rumba and sardana dances class

Pottery workshops

Online dance with Latoya

Interactive DIY & upcylcing workshops

From Market to Table

Art Zafirmaniry – Madagascar

Embroidery and weaving 

Recife tour & manguebeat story 

Photographying & revealing creativity

Bakery for ritual breads

Culinary arts experiences 

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

SUCCESS STORIES

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

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

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

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

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:

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

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

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

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

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

UPERNOIR: the festival that celebrates black on the plate!

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

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

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

INTERVIEWS

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

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

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

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

Interview with Nicolas Monquaut (French Ministry of Culture)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

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