KOTA KINABALU: Kraftangan Malaysia Borneo Craft Festival (BCF) 2022 has started from Sept 23 till Oct 10 at 1Borneo Hypermall.
The programme featured 58 exhibitors are expected to pull in 30,000 visitors, said Kraftangan Malaysia director-general Ainu Sham Ramli.
This is a first physical programme held in Sabah after the removing of the Covid-19 restrictions.
She hoped the programme will be able to rake in a sale of RM400,000 as the last two exhibitions held in Lintasan Deasoka in 2018 and Suria Sabah shopping mall in 2019, generated a combined sales of RM1.12 million.
At that time, it was participated by 199 craft entrepreneurs from Sabah and Sarawak, with over 30,000 visitors recorded, she said.
To boost the sale, Ainu said an incentive vouchers amounting to RM3 million has been offered to buyers since Sept 16 during Malaysia Day celebration.
The consumers can use the voucher to purchase the handicraft products to enjoy RM30 discount for every purchase worth RM100.
The voucher valid to be used at BCF 2022, at all the sale centres and galleries of Kraftangan Malaysia nationwide, craft complexes and Karyaneka outlets.
The initiative has contributed to an increase in the sales of craft as until Aug 2022, it had achieved 93.2 per cent or RM186.4 million of the targeted RM200 million.
It had also spurred the number of craft communities to 26,054 people from 25,592 people last year, she said.-HS
