نبذة مختصرة : Comprehensive stakeholder engagement in tourism planning is vital for sustainable destination development, but many strategic plans fail to provide evidence of such engagement on a destination level. As a part of a wider doctoral research project, that aims to evaluate the sustainable tourism strategy in Orkney Islands, this paper aims to discuss a proposed process of developing the Strategy Evaluation Framework, which considers the high contextuality of sustainable tourism development, and the complex stakeholder structure in a specific rural island destination. It is argued that lessons learnt from this process, and the results of the wider Orkney case study, can aid in developing and implementing sustainable tourism strategies in other rural and island destinations, as well as provide a valuable contribution to future strategic planning for sustainable tourism development in Orkney. As a single case study, this research employs an in-depth analysis of sustainability needs in Orkney, as viewed by a variety of its stakeholders, and attempts to provide a pragmatic solution to a real-life sustainability challenge this remote island community is facing.
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