“…Island rurality, furthermore, seems to bring out a different set of concerns in creative tourism development, namely addressing issues of authenticity (or authenticities) [14,57,58], quality of place [34], place identity/sense of place [31,41], community participation [64], and capacity building/ community empowerment [14,35,39,60,65]. Intended benefits from creative tourism for rural island communities include economic strengthening/revival [34,35,39,48]; higher destination differentiation/ competitiveness [14,33,35,40,57]; fostered community cohesion [31,46,48]; increased pride in local culture among residents [14,46,47]; and reduced seasonality [14,40].…”