CAN TOURISM REALLY

CHANGE A COMMUNITY?

Sustainable tourism is tourism that meets the needs of present

tourists and destination communities while also

protecting and enhancing opportunities for the future.

It is not a type of product, it is an way of thinking that guides

tourism industry people as they make decisions about how to

help tourists and the communities in which they work.

The purpose is to allow communities to benefit

economically from tourism while reducing any negative impacts

on them.

BENEFITS OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISMFor travellers -

➤ Relationships with local community members

➤ Knowledge of where money spent is going

For the community➤ Money can go to

community development or support

➤ Employment in tourism companies

➤ Money spent at local shops and with locals artisans or companies

What Can

Sustainable

Tourism Do?

Raise money for communit

y developm

ent

Provide jobs for

community members

Create global

connections

Provide opportunities for voluntou

rism

Example?

Example?

Example?

Example?

Find Indonesia on your world maps and label it. Also label their most immediate neighbours.

INDONESIA➤ Fourth-largest population in the

world➤ Tenth-largest economy in the

world➤ Poverty has recently fallen from

17% in 2004 to 11% in 2014➤ However around 40% of

Indonesians live just above the poverty line

➤ Around 60% of Indonesians are farmers - lots of struggling farm workers in rural areas

➤ Around 7.9 million Indonesians employed in fisheries - can struggle when catch levels decline

➤ Women have less access to education, earn less and are often excluded from decision-making processes

GO TO THE CIA WORLD FACT BOOKHALF THE CLASS SHOULD FIND THE

AUSTRALIAN ENTRY, HALF THE ENTRY FOR INDONESIA

RECORD AND COMPARE THE FOLLOWING THINGS:

UNDER ‘PEOPLE AND SOCIETY’ - POPULATION, LIFE EXPECTANCY AT

BIRTH, ACCESS TO WATER AND SANITATION IN RURAL AND URBAN

AREASUNDER ‘ECONOMY’ - GDP PER

CAPITA AND POPULATION BELOW POVERTY LINE

Around 500km

northwest of Australia

Southwest of Timor

Around 1200km

squared in area

ROTE ISLAND➤ People in this area live on

around 1/3 the income of other Indonesians

➤ Rote Island is part of East Nusa Tenggara Province, which has a 23% poverty rate➤ This is considering the

‘poverty line’ at about $25 a month income in urban areas and $17 in rural

➤ Only 39% of kids in the Province are enrolled in secondary school

ROTE ISLANDGo to the Wikipedia page for East Nusa Tenggara province

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Nusa_Tenggara

Scroll down to the section on

Growth and DevelopmentCircle Rote Island on your world map and annotate it with five facts, in your own words, that you think best

illustrate the living conditions on Rote Island

You could consider health, food, water, education,

infrastructure

WHY IS TOURISM A GREAT SOLUTION HERE?

WHAT WOULD

YOU DO?

MERCY HUTS➤ Mercy Huts is a registered

charity establishing not-for-profit beachfront retreats that will help empower communities living in poverty in remote Indonesia.

➤ It is a surf retreat from which all money goes into community development

➤ They also employ only local people from Rote

WHAT THEY DO➤ Currently building a training

centre to provide vocational training for local people

➤ Putting together a noodle business that sells nutrient-fortified noodles, made by Sanitarium, and is run by local people

➤ Educating local people on sanitation, healthcare and water use

➤ Surf retreat runs as a family hotel with all proceeds going back into the local community

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO VISIT?

WHY DO WE HELP?➤ Established by two local families, the Thistlethwaites and the

McMahons➤ They travelled to East Indonesia frequently and were driven to

help the local people➤ The families lived on Rote for a period in 2012 to get to know

the local community and figure out the best ways to help

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

OR …➤ Let the SRC organise it for

you➤ Year 8 SRC will be

supporting Mercy Huts by running a fundraiser next week

➤ On Tuesday, they will be selling cakes and hot chocolate on the Quad with all proceeds going straight to supporting Mercy Huts and their great work

➤ Bring your money and your appetites next Tuesday to support this awesome organisation