Alena Murang sets Tribe Legacy at ICCA 2020 Alena Murang, a Sarawak-born musician and creative artist of Dayak Kelabit and English-Italian ancestry has been selected as the keynote speaker. ICCA Annual Congress 2020 adopts ‘hub and spoke’ format to maximise global participation With travel challenges presented by the pandemic, the 59th ICCA Congress will be delivered in a hybrid format with main ‘hub’ event in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and ‘spokes’ in seven regional satellite locations: Latin America, North America, Cape Town, Kuching, Luxembourg, Malaga, and Riyadh. ‘Gift of Love’ for Batang Ai longhouse folk Batang Ai longhouse folk have been gifted with Business Events Sarawak’s (BESarawak) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project called ‘Gift of Love: Batang Ai Community Library’, built on the grounds of Nanga Ukom longhouse. Sarawak to sharpen focus on corporate meetings in 2021 Over the next five years, Sarawak will focus on strengthening its corporate meetings and incentive segment by 20 per cent, in a bid to “multiply the economic impact of business events,” said Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Sarawak and Minister of Youth and Sports Sarawak, Datuk Karim Rahman Hamzah Sarawak begins third tourism master plan study The Sarawak Economic Planning Unit and state Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry are conducting a joint third Sarawak Tourism Master Plan 2020 – 2035 study to chart the way forward for the tourism industry to recover from the impact of COVID-19. First global summit on COVID-19 therapy to be held in UiTM The first global summit on Viral-Immunology and Antivirus therapy, jointly organised by Asia-China Education and Culture (ACEC) Association, the summit is the special edition of Innovative Science and Technologies Research and Education (InnoSTRE) hybrid conference, to be held at UiTM in November 2020. Tourism Malaysia to promote Bung Bratak Heritage Centre in Sarawak Tourism Malaysia (Sarawak office) will help to promote Bung Bratak Heritage Centre overseas through its offices worldwide, says chairman of Bung Bratak Heritage Association Datuk Peter Minos. Sarawak has potential to be stylish fashion tourism destination Federal Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Dato Sri Nancy Shukri believes Sarawak has the potential to be another stylish fashion tourism destination, on par with the likes of Paris, New York, London and Milan.