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The impact of tourism on small communities located in peripheral areas, many of them rural, was the subject of the study conducted by Linderová et al. (2021). The authors advocate the critical participation of the local community in tourism development. This is a very important issue that has been widely debated in the context of the pandemic and post-pandemic resulting from COVID-19. Indeed, this strongly adverse context for tourism is also a time to rethink pre-pandemic tourism, massive, and generally damaging to the tourism destination, toward more sustainable and inclusive approaches for the local community (Hall et al., 2020). Thus, this commentary aimed to complement the perspective of the authors on the benefit of local communities from tourism development. More specifically, it aimed to align the article with the core of this special issue, highlighting the role that lifestyle entrepreneurs have in distributing the value generated by tourism among local actors.