Denmark’s inshore coastal regions and islands are areas rich in maritime and coastal heritage and history with unique heritage buildings and structures, distinctive wooden fishing boats, vivid oral and folk traditions which feed into modern literature and collective memories, and which forms the basis of touristic and business innovation. Though blessed with abundant heritage, the Danish case region is, in general, characterised by many of the same challenges found in rural and peripheral regions throughout Europe such as low population, limited infrastructure, outmigration, increased pressures from tourism and development without regard to tangible CH, poor stock status of locally important fish stocks, and the deregulation of strong protections of coastal areas. Thus, in this case, we explore how local communities and peoples can adapt to contemporary societal conditions using their cultural heritage to help tackle the challenges they face, such as strengthening societal awareness of maritime heritage for tourism and community development, and investigating how local, cultural knowledge (e.g., traditional boat building; maritime navigation) can provide a platform for community revitalisation, strengthened community identity.