5.1 Socio-Cultural Sustainability
5.1.1 In Otago, New Zealand, a democratic city council maintaining socio-cultural sustainability. The city has a peaceful history of more than 150 years, and about 140 thousand people are living there. The city council also supports local tourism industry, following the one industry concept. Their websites provide information of local destinations to the world, and i-SITE Dunedin Visitor Centre offers their visitors and residents convenient information and booking systems domestically. Temporally, Otago region does not have negative socio-cultural impacts on tourism. However, population is going to keep growing there, it might cause some problems, such as pollutions and nature destructions with increase of logging in the future.
5.1.2 In KwaZulu-Natal region, more than half of the rural people are living under the poverty line, many people have been infected AIDS. The HIV/AIDS infection rates is almost the highest in South Africa. Through the apartheid era, many local people did not have educations, and it causes the poverty, high clime rates and social un-sustainability. Also, the lack of educations disturb them participating tourism industry at management levels. They only have skills to work as housekeepers and so on. Moreover, the apartheid era removed many local communities, and structured suitable laws for white settlement. Then new acts to protect removed people make a property right of owners unclear. Recently, a committee of KwaZulu-Natal tourism authority resolved this problem deciding who owned where, but they tend to look at economical revenue of tourism rather than socio-cultural sustainability. Some problems of property right are still left. In South Africa, people have not solved serious social and political problems yet.
5.1.1 In Otago, New Zealand, a democratic city council maintaining socio-cultural sustainability. The city has a peaceful history of more than 150 years, and about 140 thousand people are living there. The city council also supports local tourism industry, following the one industry concept. Their websites provide information of local destinations to the world, and i-SITE Dunedin Visitor Centre offers their visitors and residents convenient information and booking systems domestically. Temporally, Otago region does not have negative socio-cultural impacts on tourism. However, population is going to keep growing there, it might cause some problems, such as pollutions and nature destructions with increase of logging in the future.
5.1.2 In KwaZulu-Natal region, more than half of the rural people are living under the poverty line, many people have been infected AIDS. The HIV/AIDS infection rates is almost the highest in South Africa. Through the apartheid era, many local people did not have educations, and it causes the poverty, high clime rates and social un-sustainability. Also, the lack of educations disturb them participating tourism industry at management levels. They only have skills to work as housekeepers and so on. Moreover, the apartheid era removed many local communities, and structured suitable laws for white settlement. Then new acts to protect removed people make a property right of owners unclear. Recently, a committee of KwaZulu-Natal tourism authority resolved this problem deciding who owned where, but they tend to look at economical revenue of tourism rather than socio-cultural sustainability. Some problems of property right are still left. In South Africa, people have not solved serious social and political problems yet.