About Us

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creativetourist.com is an online arts and travel magazine based in Manchester. The locations we cover are culturally rich; we hope that by publishing ‘insider guides’ to them, we can share the love – and get creative tourists travelling to new cities to try out the cultural goodness on offer elsewhere.

creativetourist.com is part of Creative Tourist Limited, a publishing, events and communications agency. We specialise in cultural tourism and digital communications. We publish this award-winning online magazine, and stage cultural events. And we develop intelligent communications strategies that enable destinations to position themselves as places that cultural tourists actively want to visit.

Whatever we’re working on, we’re working on it because we are passionate about art and culture, and about the places in which we live and work. We are passionate about the culture of the North of England in particular; we believe there is a cultural life here waiting to be uncovered and experienced by people like us and by people like you – our readers.

We are always looking for contributors. Get in touch with your ideas at info@creativetourist.com

Our funders and supporters. Creative Tourist is supported by Arts Council England, and by the Manchester Partnership (Manchester Art Gallery, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The Manchester Museum), as well as by Visit Manchester. We began life in Manchester as a project to promote Mancunian art and culture; we remain committed to the city that we know, love and are proud to call home.

Our friends. We believe in collaboration and partnerships, and have developed new publishing partnerships with The Big Issue in the North, Northern Quarter Stories and The Double Negative as well as Culture 24, Axis Web and Corridor8.

We also co-founded the Blog North Network with Open Stories and The Culture Vulture, as we believe that blogging and bloggers deserve both support and respect. And the odd social outing.

The views and opinions expressed by authors and contributors to this site are not specifically endorsed by Creative Tourist Limited and do not necessarily reflect the views of our funders or partners.

Use of this site assumes acceptance of our full terms and conditions. Please note that all work here belongs to Creative Tourist Limited; please do not copy, duplicate or re-publish our work without our express, written permission; and keep it clean, folks: check our content standards on our terms of use page for acceptable behaviour (which boils down to being nice; trolls beware).

Got something to share? Get in touch with the editorial team at info@creativetourist.com or better still Tweet us @creativetourist