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This closing chapter examines the thematic threads that link the chapters to form a framework for examining, reflecting on, and informing action on the interrelationships among cultural sustainability, tourism, and local development. While highly interconnected, at an overarching level, four key themes emerge: Caring for culture - fostering cultural stewardship and sustainability while enabling cultural adaptations and new approaches to traditional and emergent resources; Enabling culturally sensitive modes of tourism - encouraging locally beneficial modes of tourism which reshape relations between visitors and local residents and highlight the specificities of a place; Empowering community - strengthening local community agency and designing inclusive and participative governance frameworks and mechanisms to better understand and act upon dynamics and issues concerning tourism, local cultural vitality, and …