Discover the World of Cultural and Creative Tourism

Geographical Tourism Around a Country or a Region:

• Cultural tourism involves learning, discovering, experiencing, and consuming the cultural attractions/products of a tourism destination, including arts, architecture, heritage, cuisine, music, festivals, museums, and religious venues.
• Cultural tourism experiences include historic sites, monuments, landmarks, national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, and large cities with cultural facilities.
• Cultural tourism can benefit the local population financially, while also giving visitors the opportunity to broaden their personal horizons.
• Negative effects of cultural tourism include economic instability, increased cost of living, pollution, and disruption of the social fabric.
• Cultural tourism is becoming increasingly popular worldwide, and it is a key component of memorable tourism experiences.
• Living cultural areas, historical sites, modern urban districts, and natural ecosystems are some of the destinations for cultural tourism.
• Cultural tourism can be divided into study trips, thematic field trips, urban tourism, rural tourism, tourism of cultural heritage, tourism of contemporary culture, and tourism of cultural heritage and contemporary culture.
• Cultural tourism attracts visitors through cultural attractions and events, and many cultural districts add visitor services to key cultural areas to bolster tourist activity.
• Creative tourism is a new type of tourism that offers visitors the opportunity to develop their creative potential through active participation in courses and learning experiences.
• The UNESCO Creative Cities Network highlights cities around the world that put creativity at the heart of their sustainable urban development plan.
• The Creative Tourism Network is a non-profit organization that promotes creative tourism and creates a network of "Creativefriendly" cities.
• The Creative Tourism Awards celebrate the development of creative tourism.