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

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

Merit Creation in Thailand

Cannes | France

«The mark of fire» pyrography on wood

Mosaic workshop in Barcelona

Discover Cannes Honey

Local cuisine workshop

Live a photographic experience in Biot!

Performing tour 

Creative workshops at the Bambouseraie

Yunguilla Community Tourism

Lantern Making in Thailand

Spinning and weaving of linen

Travel sketchbook

Introduction to creative techniques at the museum

Medellín | Colombia

Make your own marbled papers

Herbalism and summer care

Print making with Casa Plan  

Biot | France

Cooking workshops

Zabalartes-Old toys making workshop in Quito

Perpignan-Méditerranée | France

A countryside experience

Visit a farmhouse around sheeps

Cosmetic workshop

Free guided tours

Cévennes cooking workshop

Tour operator with Ecomapu 

Sketching workshop in Barcelona

Barcelos imagery

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

Sew a Taleigo bag in Loulé

Wood carving workshops

Cooking workshops Colombian food

Create your own Sukhothai pattern in Thaïland

Cardboard workshop in Loulé

Around Louvre-Lens | France

Ceramist workshop

Blow your own glass piece in Biot (French Riviera)

Glass blowing workshop at La Méduse

Routes to hydrangea and orchid crops

Tours to enjoy street food

Limaçon – Stone-cutting workshop

Quincha Quintil ceramic workshop

Beekeeping workshop in Quito

Arts & Crafts markets

Nabeul | Tunisia

“Pélardon” cheese workshop

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

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!

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

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

Barcelos inaugurates its House of Creativity

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

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

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

Gabrovo Creative Tourissm: successful glass tangle festival

The Îles de la Madeleine: a model of creative tourism

New Horizons: Gabrovo, between magic and traditions

Creative Tourism, awarded in the Medellín Product Show Contest

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

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

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

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

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

Gabrovo Humour Carnival

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

Djerba focuses on creative and sustainable tourism in Tunisia

Creative Tourism in the Llanquihue Lake (Chile)

INTERVIEWS

La Tavola Marche (Italy)

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

Marina Simião, Patchwork Methodology (Brazil)

Marijana Biondic, Crikvenica (Croatia)

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

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

Rupanjana De, Touriosity Travelmag

Dr Mervat Abdel-Nasser, New Hermopolis (Egypt)

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