My Inn Hotel in Kota Samarahan all set to welcome guests

KUCHING: My Inn Hotel Kota Samarahan will open its doors for business at 11.30am tomorrow (Oct 10).

“Strategically located in the booming township of Kota Samarahan, the hotel offers 46 fully-renovated and elegantly decorated rooms, namely Deluxe Family Suit, Deluxe Family, Deluxe King, Deluxe Queen, Deluxe Twin and Superior King,” said My Inn Hotel management through a press statement yesterday.

It will connect with Servay Jaya Supermarket – currently under construction – to provide one-stop grocery shopping, self-service laundromat, and is within walking distance to fast-food outlets and other food premises

It is also within a five-minute drive to Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), Sarawak Heart Centre, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and banks, among other facilities.

All rooms are equipped with high definition television and satellite channels, complimentary coffee/tea-making facilities, complimentary drinking water, free Wi-Fi access, individual air-conditioning, iron and ironing board (available upon request), non-smoking floor, CCTV surveillance system, as well as elevator to all floors, the statement added.

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Sematan Fest to include Tanjung Datu International Open Sea Fishing Competition from next year

LUNDU: The Tanjung Datu International Open Sea Fishing Competition will be organised beginning next year to attract foreign visitors to Sematan.

Tanjung Datu assemblywoman Datuk Amar Jamilah Anu said the proposed international competition will be aggressively promoted to ensure that the plan become a reality.

“Tanjung Datu Open Sea Fishing Competition will be listed in the tourism calendar and included in the Sematan Festival programme next year.

“This year we organised the event on a moderate scale but next year if there are sponsors we will open it to international level. This will make the festival much merrier.

“The competition is to remember “Tok Nan” – the 5th Chief Minister of Sarawak Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem who is a fishing enthusiast himself, “she said when officiating at the Sematan Festival 2017 yesterday.

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Study on impact of tourist arrivals in Sarawak vital

KUCHING: The state government wants to study the impact of having many tourists visiting Sarawak before it negotiates on getting more direct international flights to the state.

According to Sarawak Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, this study needs special preparations in that the government must first make sure that Sarawak is ready to accommodate a huge amount of visitors.

Speaking during a press conference at his office here yesterday, he pointed out that there is no point of inviting more tourists to Sarawak if the state could not provide the facilities for them.

“There are lots of things needed to be studied before we could call for more tourists to come to Sarawak. We want to make sure that we can provide what is best for them (the tourists),” he stressed, adding that one of the provisions would be prices of local items such as food.

Abdul Karim pointed at Sabah as an example of a state popular among tourists, where the prices food – more specifically, seafood – are expensive.

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Direct Sibu-Kota Kinabalu flight coming up

SIBU: The state government is negotiating with AirAsia to have direct flights between Sibu and Kota Kinabalu.

Minister of Sarawak Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, in revealing this, said he’s confident the direct flight would materialise.

“We are still in the process of negotiations. There are seven sectors in Sarawak being negotiated now with AirAsia and one of them is the Sibu-Kota Kinabalu sector.

“I am confident that by the time we end this negotiation, we would be able to secure the Sibu-Kota Kinabalu sector,” he said at the opening of Sibu Lantern Festival and 1Malaysia Food Fair at Sibu Town Square here Tuesday evening.

Since taking over stewardship of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports, he had been trying to get air connectivity, not just for Kuching, but also for other big towns in the state including Sibu.

He added that he would also look into the possibility of a Sibu–Singapore sector with direct flights in the near future.

“Just give me a little bit of time to do this. There are technicalities here and there that need to be sorted out; the government departments need to be approached, but at the end of the day, with the right approach, I am confident we will be able to bring all these flights to Sibu and other big towns in the state,” he said.

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One million tourists from China to Sabah next year

KOTA KINABALU: The Belt and Road Initiative advocated by Chinese President Xi Jinping will create more business opportunities for Sabah, particularly in bringing in increasing numbers of Chinese tourists and investors to the State.

Sabah United Chinese Chambers of Commerce (SUCCC) president Tan Sri Andrew Liew Sui Fatt said that the tourism industry in Sabah was thriving.

As such, he encouraged SUCCC members and the business community to venture into hotel development to cater for the market demand.

Liew said this after leading his committee members to pay a courtesy call on the Head of State, Tun Juhar Mahiruddin at Istana Negeri here yesterday. The purpose of the courtesy call was to introduce the new SUCCC leadership line-up to Juhar.

Liew said Chief Minister Tan Sri Musa Haji Aman had recently met with the chairman of a tourism travel national cooperation in Beijing who promised to bring one million Chinese tourists to Sabah in the coming year.

Liew said the arrival of the one million tourists would certainly bring significant positive impact to the tourism and economy of the State.

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