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2. Generates Income and Local Entrepreneurship

The Payangan Education Project's Training Center will help sustain and improve the quality of life for the local people by keeping all net revenue earned within the community. Currently, many children in Bali cannot complete their high school education. While Osaka International School currently sponsors 30 students who could not continue their education otherwise, long term, the Payangan Education Project's Training Center aims to help the school become self-sustainable. Visiting international school groups and individual guests will use this facility. This will allow SMK Payangan to generate income from its use. SMK students will gain hospitality and language skills, self-confidence and pride while the Payangan Enducation Project will generate income; through offering a variety of hospitality service, events and lessons utilizing the training center's facilities. Revenue earned will directly help SMK Payangan School cover its own expenses, as well as offer scholarships and subsidize some students' school fees. Indirectly the flow on effect of having international school groups and other visitors will help the economy of the local community as well as actively employ students.

If tourism is to contribute to sustainable developments, the role of small and micro entrepreneurs in formal and informal economic arrangements becomes vital. The advantages of small-scale activities are that they are less disruptive and have more modest capital requirements that permit local participation. In addition, they leave control in local hands, and they are more likely to fit in with indigenous activities and land uses. Small-scale enterprises depend on ownership patterns which are in favor of local, often family-owned businesses rather than foreign-owned transnational companies. If local businesses benefit from tourism and opportunities exist for active resident involvement in the ownership and operation of facilities, local tolerence to tourism activites is significantly enhanced.