“…Creative tourism business models have evolved from basic, small-scale creative experiences to platforms of creative communities, incorporating principles from the experience economy, linking tourism to creative economy businesses and activities, thus giving rise to global networks centred on the sharing economy paradigm [15,18,20,22,23] With the three key elements of creative tourism experiences, namely participation, knowledge acquisition and the experience of the local life [5,24], new forms of cultural mediation have emerged and been developed by new cultural intermediaries [25] such as "lifestyle entrepreneurs" [14,26] "switchers" or "curators" [19] influenced by the cultural and creative industries [27,28] with ICTs and global virtual platforms giving rise to creative tourism 4.0 [18].…”