We had a delightful evening at the recent “We Are Kindred Festival (WAK 2025) Appreciation Dinner” which was held at Theatre Hotel Kuching. Also present during the dinner were the list of supporters and collaborators of this year’s WAK event which had various exciting activities as well as programs held in Kuching, Sibu and Miri. In my speech, I described the festival as an important catalyst in Sarawak's creative industry, fostering innovation, cultural exploration, and collaboration among our multi-racial community. The expansion of WAK events to Sarawak’s central and northern regions had highlighted the growing interest in arts and creativity across our state.
On another note, I have highlighted the importance of support and collaboration from both government agencies, private sector and non governmental organizations (NGOs) in making this year's WAK a huge success and attracted the attention of our local folks.
With the staging of colourful events in Sarawak, we are able to attract visitors from domestic and international sectors which in return contributing the tourism receipts that had breached the RM1 billion mark in October 2025. The tourism receipt had also showed Sarawak's positive momentum of consistently achieving over RM1 billion every month since January 2025.
Our visitors' number had also reached 414, 225 people in October and those from the international sector had reached 212,250 people.
We are also optimistic for Sarawak to reach its target of five million tourists by the end of 2025 and the state government will continue to strengthen our position as a premier destination through the organizing of high-impact events, aggressive promotions and development of new tourism products to woo visitors.
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