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PDL wants to promote tourism through his music
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah evergreen singer Peter Dicky Lee who has stayed long enough in the entertainment scene that many could remember has decided to slow it down this year. He is not slowing down for retirement anytime soon, but decided to switch his focus on doing something else. “I will cut down on my programmes,”…
The ginger of Kampung Tikolod, Tambunan
Kampung Tikolod is the hub of ginger cultivation and traditional musical instruments making in Tambunan. Ginger is farmed abundantly in the village by the local farmers, thus making them one of Sabah’s main suppliers. “The ginger cultivated in this village is acclaimed for its high content of juice,” the spokesperson of Kampung Tikolod Tourism Centre,…
Tegudon Village has best stargazing site
KOTA BELUD: The Tegudon Tourism Village (TTV) in Kampung Tegudon here is renowned for being one of the third famous stargazing sites in Malaysia. Since it was officially opened to visitors on May 2017, the rural ecotourism site has attracted scores of stargazers from around the country every year. So far early this year, they…
Visit Tenom 2020
KOTA KINABALU: Tenom has created scores of interesting tourism products for visitors to explore this year as they celebrates the ‘Visit Tenom 2020’. “We are promoting Tenom as the land of culture and nature as we have a long list of attractions waiting for the tourists to visit. We have designed proper travel guide map…
Time to relook touristic sites
KOTA KINABALU: Instead of counting the losses and resorting to cost-cutting due to the adverse effect from the coronavirus (Covid-19). The Sabah’s tourism industry should treat this as an opportune time to improve their overall services and cleanliness in the touristic sites. The Sabah Association of Tour and Travel Agents (SATTA) chairman Dato’s Seri Winston…
Kampung Tegudon has best stargazing site
[pl_row] [pl_col col=12] [pl_text] KOTA BELUD: The Tegudon Tourism Village (TTV) in Kampung Tegudon here is renowned for being one of the third famous stargazing sites in Malaysia. Since it was officially opened to visitors on May 2017, the rural ecotourism site has attracted scores of stargazers from around the country every year. So far…
Palace Hotel won prestigious award
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: The Palace Hotel Kota Kinabalu was the only hotel in the whole of Borneo to won the ASEAN Green Hotel Standard Award 2020-2022 recently, from out of four hotels in Malaysia. The ceremony was held at the Empire Brunei, Brunei on Jan 16, 2020. The award was a recognition by the Ministry…
AirAsia offers amazing travel deals with up to 30% off your next adventure
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Sabah hit 4 million tourists in 2019
KOTA KINABALU: Hats off to Sabah tourism and all stakeholders for achieving the target of four million tourists arrival set for 2019. The overall record shows a total of 4,195,903 tourists from both domestic and international has visited Sabah last year. It was an increase of 8.2 per cent to 402,981 against 3,879,413 in 2018….
SATTA appeals bank to suspend loan repayments
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Association of Tour and Travel Agents (SATTA) has sought the assistance from the government to help ease their financial burden following the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus. Its chairman, Dato Seri Winston Liaw said SATTA has written to Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Christina Liew and Kota Kinabalu MP Chan Foong Hin…