The bottom-up approach and the goal driven planning both demand a broad array of people and organizations to
be involved from the very start of the process. By actively taking part in making decisions and determining the
results of those decisions, people in democratic societies gain control over their lives (Papathanassiou-Zuhrt and
Sakellaridis, 2007), which could be interpreted as individual empowerment. With this reason it is very important to
select as many stakeholders as possible and involve them in sustainable heritage management and consequently also
in the socio-economic revitalization. Stakeholder analysis is a challenging yet crucial task for a project that depends
on the involvement of the local community. The locals represent the “human capital,” and their knowledge,
capabilities and personal creativity are paramount to the process of sustainable heritage management.