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.
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. J端rgen, 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.
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