CTO or cto may refer to:

Occupations

  • Chief technology officer, an executive officer in an organization focused on scientific and technological issues
  • Chief Technology Officer of the United States
  • Certified Television Operator, an operator certified by the Society of Broadcast Engineers

Organizations

  • Cape Town Opera, South African opera company
  • Caribbean Tourism Organization, for sustainable tourism
  • Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, a partnership between Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth governments, business, and civil society organisations
  • Cyprus Tourism Organisation, a semi-governmental organisation in Cyprus
  • CTO Hospital (Turin), a major medical center in Turin, Italy

Other

  • Cancelled-to-order, a postage-stamp cancelled by the postal administration before sale to stamp-collectors
  • Configure-to-order, production strategy where pre-defined components are assembled after a customer places an order for a product. Similar to Built to Order
  • Activated carbon filter to improve Chlorine, Taste, Odor
  • Chronic total occlusion, a disease of a coronary artery of the heart
  • City ticket office for an airline
  • Color temperature orange, a type of color gel filter used in color correction
  • Community treatment order, an implementation of mental-health law in Australia, England and most provinces in Canada
  • Crude Tall Oil, a viscous yellow-black odorous liquid obtained as a by-product of the kraft process of wood pulp

See also

  • Central Treaty Organization (CenTO), a former intergovernmental military alliance