Rethinking of Cities, Culture and Tourism within a Creative Perspective: (Editorial)

Abstract

The last decade has been a period of intensive interest for "creativity".In fact, it is not the "creativity" that is new to humankind, as people have been creative throughout history.What is new is the rather frequent use of the word "creativity" to describe a diverse set of areas in our lives.Creative economy (Howkins, 2001), creative industries, creative jobs, creative class (Florida, 2002), creative cities and creative tourism (Richards & Wilson, 2006) have been some of the areas where the concept has been utilized to relate the consequent fields to innovation and imagination.The ever-growing interest with (re)creation is not without reason.The major issue almost in all arenas of life today is to be "different".It is the combination of the two powerful concepts of our age; "competitiveness" and "standardization" that calls for a need to be creative in order to differentiate our selves, our products, our jobs, our economies and of course our cities from the rest.The concept of creativity has been introduced to the field of tourism relatively recently.Acknowledging this new concept of inquiry, the international conference of Cities as Creative Spaces for Cultural Tourism in Istanbul (CCSCT) was organized to bring together an international

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