Wooing 4,000 delegates to Sarawak for the forthcoming national and international conferences

Sarawak is optimistic in wooing an estimated 4,000 delegates coming to the state in conjunction with the staging of four major national and international events that will be held here. I have mentioned this in the recent BESarawak’s Tribal Gathering held in Kuala Lumpur for the official announcement of conferences under the Malaysian Institute of Food Technology, the Malaysian Society of Radiographers, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Malaysia) Society and the Malaysian Society of Anaesthesiologists (MSA) and the College of Anaesthesiologists, Academy of Medicine Malaysia. 

The forthcoming conferences augur well for Sarawak’s efforts to align with international objectives and standards in measuring the intangible benefit of business events known as "legacy impact". 

As such, we have also decided to continue the "Business Events Planners Incentivised Packages" for the year 2022 under the "BEimpactful" program which provides extended financial and in-kind incentives. It is applicable for physical, hybrid, and homegrown national and international conventions, exhibitions, and corporate meetings. For national and international corporate incentives, the event must be held physically only.

BESarawak together with MyCEB are working closely at higher levels of collaboration to drive Malaysia’s economic transformation and social development through business events. It is in line with Sarawak’s Post Covid-19 Development Strategy 2030 or PCDS. The business events sector had been identified as an aspiration to empower communities and conserve heritage, culture and biodiversity and promote investment and development in all sectors. Thus, we must do these in preparation for the impacts of border reopening on April 1, and the high probability of international business events making their way back. Since the inception of Business Events Sarawak in 2006, approximately RM3 billion in total economic impacts were recorded under the various national and international meetings, events and conferences held on Sarawak's shores.