Thursday, April 28, 2011

20110402 - Confirmation Course Indoor Class




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20110327 - BTGA AGM 2011



20110226 - CTRE PUTRAJAYA



TM : Malaysia Tourism Awards 2010/2011 Nominations

This prestigious Malaysia Tourism Award 2010-2011 is the highest accolade bestowed to those who excel in the development of our nations tourism industry. The Nominations starts from 10th April until 4th of June 2011.

To download nomination form, click here, or at http://www.motour.gov.my/.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

TheSTAR : Penang Hill Funicular Train Service

Friday April 22, 2011
By FONG KEE SOON
keesoon@thestar.com.my

Penang funicular railway’s six-day run to raise funds

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Hill funicular train service will re-open to the public on April 25 and will run for charity in the first six days.

Penang Hill Corporation (PHC) director Datuk Lee Kah Choon said the return fare for the charity rides would be RM10 for adults. Children below 12 can ride for free.

“Proceeds from the charity tickets will go to the Penang welfare deparment to help underprivileged folk identified by the state government,” he told a press conference here yesterday.

Lee said that from May 1 the corporation would impose different fares for Malaysians and foreign visitors.


Chugging new ride: The train and its passengers making their way up Penang Hill.

For Malaysians, the return fares would be RM8 for adults (below 55 years) and RM4 for children (aged three to 12.)

Senior citizens (aged 55 and above) and Malaysian students will enjoy a reduced rate of RM4.

For foreigners, the return fares will be RM30 (for adults) and RM15 (for children aged three to 12).

The previous return fares were RM4 for adults and RM2 for children, irrespective of whether they were local or foreign visitors.

Lee said one-way fares were available for Malaysians at RM5 per ticket, for both adults and children.

Disabled persons or those holding OKU cards as well as children aged three and below local or foreign will enjoy free rides.

Lee said the corporation had introduced a return trip family package (for two adults and two children) at RM18 for Malaysians and RM70 for foreigners.

Residents of the hill as well as licensed traders, hawkers and workers can continue to buy their monthly pass at RM24.

The revamped Penang Hill service will run from 6.30am to 9pm daily.

The service was suspended since Feb 22 last year for the RM73mil upgrading project by the Tourism Ministry.

It now has two new air-conditioned Swiss-made coaches that can ferry up to 100 passengers and is capable of making a one-way trip within five minutes without a change of train.

In the previous 87-year-old system, passengers had to change trains at the middle station for a 30-minute one-way trip.

The resumption of the service is, however, shrouded in uncertainty as PHC has has only two weeks' stock of spare parts.

Lee said an order had been placed for the parts but they have yet to arrive.

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SwkTB :WITNESS AN AMAZING FORM OF MUSIC AT THE RWMF




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WITNESS AN AMAZING FORM OF MUSIC AT THE RWMF

Kuching, 22 April 2011 – From the remote, northern tropical islands of Vanuatu, comes an extremely unique and rarely seen tradition, called water music. Dressed in traditional costumes of flowers and leaves, a small number of women wade into the water up to their waist, stand in the shape of a half moon and begin to play. The water is beaten in rhythmic dance of bodies and waves. The water itself is the instrument producing a wide range of sounds in intoxicating rhythms, with pieces titled “The Sound of Thunder”, “Big Whale Fish Playing with Small Whale Fish”, “Waves Breaking on the Reef”.

This is the LEWETON WOMEN’S WATER MUSIC from VANUATU. The music evokes the sounds their ancestors have lived with for thousands of years and the crescent formation reflects the way the women have worked standing in a semi-circle at the water’s edge, or in the river. The sounds they reproduce are the sounds of life and renewal: washing, bathing, collecting shellfish: interweaving the past completely with the present, with dreams of the future. This will be a rare glimpse into an ancient but living tradition and it is easy to lose yourself in the captivating rhythms and imagine you are sitting on one of the mystical tropical islands in the northern part of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific.

There's nothing quite like the Rainforest World Music Festival. A thousand harmonies seemingly at odds and yet in unison, a world apart but here, one world, together...
So witness all this at the 14th Rainforest World Music Festival to be held on the 8 to 10 July 2011. The festival brings dazzling performances from across the globe to the magical land of Borneo for three magical days of daytime music workshops and action-packed nightly shows.
Rainforest World Music Festival has also been voted for the second consecutive year as one of the Top 25 Best International Festivals by renowned world music magazine, Songlines, elevating its status in the international music scene as a festival which has well and truly put Sarawak on the world tourism map and extending its appeal to shores further from neighbouring countries.

If you have not purchased your tickets to the festival, now’s the time to do so as promotional tickets are now available online and selling fast. Limited tickets for a 3 day pass to the festival will only cost RM260 during the promotional period whilst daily tickets for Friday and Sunday are going for RM85. All these promotional offers are limited and are available on-line until April 30, 2011 and on a first-come-first-served basis. These offers will be a great way to experience a truly memorable musical extravaganza amidst the lush green paradise that is Sarawak.
For purchase/booking/enquiries please call TicketCharge Hotline: +6 03-9222 8811 or at TicketCharge @ No 42A-1, Jalan Metro Pudu, Fraser Business Park, Off Jalan Yew, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

For more details, kindly log on to www.rainforestmusic-borneo.com.



Picture: Related image with caption attached with this press release sent via email by gustino@sarawaktourism.com.

Issued by:

Corporate Communications Unit
SARAWAK TOURISM BOARD
T : +6 082 423600
F : +6 082 416700
E : stb@sarawaktourism.com

Date : April 22, 2011

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

MEMBERSHIP FEES 2011

To All BTGA MEMBERS

Effective immediately from 28 Mar 2011

All membership fees are to be paid directly into
BTGA MAYBANK ACCOUNT NO @ 564472-40064-8

Please keep the bank-in slip & present it to BTGA office for issuance of receipt for renewals.

Please do not hesitate to contact BTGA office @ 4043 8354 or Toksam @ 019-2544 811 if you encounter any problems.

From

BTGA SECRETARIAT

f.Treasurer (toksam)