KUCHING, Saturday – Nine travel agents from Shanghai and Nanjing, China flew in today for a five-day familiarization trip to Kuching. Four Shanghai travel agents are from the Haolede International, Tongcheng Travel Agency and Ctrip while the five from Nanjing represents the China International Travel Service (Jiang Su), JSBC International Tour Service, Nanjing Zhongbei Travel Service and China Kang Hui Nanjing International Travel Service. The ...

KUCHING, Monday – Nine Taipei travel agents are currently in the city to experience for themselves Sarawak’s unique tourism products and hospitality. Flown in by the Sarawak Tourism Board through familiarization trip programme, the group arrived on Saturday and will spend time to experience the city’s attractions and unique cultural diversity. The visiting agents, led by Ms. Erica Wang from the Hong Kong Airlines branch office in Taipei, Ta...

KUCHING, Friday – The 19th Rainforest World Music Festival has clocked in a staggering 18,340 people in attendance throughout the duration of three days. The number of attendees has seen an increase of 2% from the previous year. Ticket sales for the Festival have also increased by 14% as opposed to last year’s sales. Survey forms at the event have made it easier to gauge what can be improved in the festival, and the Board will continue with gr...

Wuhan (Hubei) China, Thursday: Sarawak Tourism Board’s marketing promotion in China was given a shot in the arm today with Hubei Wanda New Airlines International Travel Services Co. Ltd expressing its desire to look into the potential of Sarawak as one of its new destination focus. For a start, the Wanda New Airlines International Travel Services will send its product specialist team to Sarawak to see for themselves the various products that wil...

Shijiazhuang, Heibei (China) Wed;   Sarawak Tourism Board and the Heibei Tourism Administration will jointly collaborate to open up more opportunities in the areas of tourism business in their respective State and Province. A Memorandum Of understanding (MOU) to the effect will be signed between the two tourism agencies to ensure that the cooperation be realised by September to prepare for the travelling season latest by November. The MOU will ...

Kuching, Thursday - Alena Murang, a promising young musician and visual artiste from Kuching, will share the stage at the 19th Rainforest World Music Festival on August 5-7 at Sarawak Cultural Village in Damai. “My cousins and I learnt Kelabit dancing since we were six and at some point, seven of us decided to pick up the sape’ so that we can have music to dance to at a rhythm, beat and length that we wanted,” she said, when asked about the begi...