Creative tourism allows visitors to actively participate in cultural activities and experiences alongside locals. It is a sustainable form of tourism that celebrates local culture, human relationships, and creativity. Barcelona has pioneered a successful creative tourism program that attracts many American visitors who come to the city to develop artistic projects. Through its Barcelona Creative Tourism initiative, the city offers resources and information to help visitors design and achieve creative projects during their stay.

1. NdP: Creative tourism: an innovative and sustainable
travel tendency.
This could be a conclusion for the International Conference on Creative Tourism that
gathered in Santa Fe (NM), distinguished tourism and urban experts as well as delegates
of UNESCO.
Creative tourism is a new form of discovering a culture in which the visitor takes part in
creative and educational activities during his stay, and this way, has the opportunity to
share enriching experiences with native people. Creative tourism is a sustainable one,
as its main resources are local culture, human relationships and creativity.
Presented within the Santa Fe Conference, Barcelona Creative Tourism pioneering
program aroused great interest of tourism professionals, artists and creative
developers.
Indeed, American citizens rank high in creative tourists that choose Barcelona city
to develop their artistic stay.
Be they members of a youth orchestra, amateur swing dancers, aspiring
photography artists, craftsmen or other creative people, U.S. visitors do appreciate
Barcelona as an ideal place where to express themselves creatively.
Barcelona is a humanly and culturally generous city and the activities generated by the
platform create interesting exchanges between visitors and natives.
Thousand of them – among individuals and tourist operators - visit us every day at
http://www.barcelonacreativa.info in order to find the workshop, the venue or all kind
of services they need to achieve their educational, exhibition or performing project and
enjoy our city in a creative way.
This press release is sent by FUSIC (Fundació Societat i Cultura) the non-profit
foundation based in Barcelona that had the idea of the program and manages it.
FUSIC has been promoting art and culture produced by the society itself for thirty years.
Well-embedded in the city's artistic life, it is able to help people make contacts with
their artistic needs.

2. Within the numerous creative tourists that have visited us, we would like to introduce some
of those interesting visitors:
Sussana, a young Bahamas citizen, who
spent five days of her week in Barcelona,
participating in a ceramic workshop.
Leah, a young Canadian designer, came
from N.Y. where she lives, in order to
attend a life-drawing course and sketch
Barcelona street life.
Sarah, a young executive from New York
City spent one day of her stay in Barcelona,
learning how to cook Spanish specialities.
Jimmy, a Swedish student, who came to
Barcelona with some friends, to take part in
an artistic glass workshop, and thus, to
discover Catalan modernism art by
experimenting it.
Kisho, soloist of Horace Man Orchestra that,
after its successful concert at Carnegie
Hall, chose Barcelona to perform a cycle of
concerts.
Mark, a student from Louisiana who visits
the city participating in a photography
workshop.
Allysson, a student from Colorado we met
when she was attending a painting class
given by a famous local artist.
Jürgen, a young German translator, visits
Barcelona every summer in order to take
part in Gracia neighbourhood festival, as a
member of Catalan traditional dances.
Olga, a Russian mathematics teacher, makes
every year a four days stay in Barcelona to
take part in swing jam sessions.

3. What does Barcelona Creative Tourism offer?
- Personalized information to tourists willing to discover creatively our city.
- The research of new resources that can help creative tourists and tourist operators to
achieve their artistic project in Barcelona.
- A better visibility for this kind of resources.
- Barcelona Creative Tourism international promotion, in order to make know
Barcelona as a creative tourism destination.
Contact:
Caroline Couret
Barcelona Creative Tourism
C/ Consell de Cent, 347 –s/à
Barcelona 08007
T. +34 93 215 74 11
connect@barcelonacreativa.info
www.barcelonacreativa.info