Sustainable creative tourism on islands and the pandemic: The Creatour Azores project

As the impact of COVID-19 pandemic was felt worldwide, tourism sector forced to seek ways reinventing itself. Two decades prior this crisis, in varied rural areas and island contexts, small-scale, community-based creative had appeared as a sustainable place-making solution foster place vitality, competitive distinctiveness, regenerative development destination resilience. From an perspective, article presents theoretical framework, methodological approaches, empirical practices Creatour Azores project, which carried out North Atlantic archipelago from 2019-2022. Given timeframe, investigators pilot projects that implemented research-practice project were confronted with pandemic, accentuated isolation remoteness tend characterize islandscapes, especially peripheral islands such Azores. At same time, however, devastating global impacted especially, ended up offering unexpected opportunities along special challenges, seeming underscore relevance studies focused on islandscapes. After describing methodologies practices, well adjustments adopted due considers future possibilities for islands, general,