Royalty income is usually the real profit center for a franchisor because of the leveraging ability. For example, imagine a franchise company owns 100 franchised outlets, and each outlet does $30,000 in monthly sales and pays a 5% royalty to the franchise company. That means $1,500 is paid by each franchisee, resulting in $150,000 paid to the franchisor each month (or 100 outlets x $1,500).
Whangara, setting of Whale Rider (film & novel), is located on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island. Whitireia = the Maori meeting house built at Whangara in 1939. Pai names Whitireia in her Paikea chant in the Whale Rider film.
Whale Watching on Maui. Maui was the center of whaling in Hawaii from 1825 to 1860, specifically the port town of Lahaina. You can still take in some of the ambience of those whaling days at the Pioneer Inn in Lahaina, built near the harbor in 1901. A great place to view humpback whales on Maui is the shallow Auau Channel that runs between West Maui (Lahaina and Ka'anapali), Lanai, and Molokai.