{"id":33816,"date":"2019-07-20T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=33816"},"modified":"2019-07-20T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:19:09","slug":"18-local-foreign-media-practitioners-explore-sarawak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=33816","title":{"rendered":"18 local, foreign media practitioners explore Sarawak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"http:\/\/pcms.bernama.com:7788\/\/storage\/photos\/5af7df83d0296bae1aaf1f699079f43d5d31f147eff31\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KUCHING, July 20 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Eighteen local and foreign media practitioners\u00a0participated in Malaysia\u2019s Mega Familiarisation\u00a0Programme (Mega Fam)\u00a0to\u00a0experience\u00a0first-hand the\u00a0 uniqueness of Sarawak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The journalists who participated in the programme this time were from Australia, Germany, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mega Fam themed \u2018Let&#8217;s Do Something Different\u2019&nbsp;is a programme organised by Tourism Malaysia in an effort to promote the country\u2019s fascinating destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourism Malaysia director-general Datuk Musa Yusof said they chose Sarawak as the destination for the Mega Fam this time, because the state is rich in biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is also in line with Tourism Malaysia\u2019s intention to promote eco-tourism in the state, in conjunction with Visit Sarawak&nbsp;Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe media practitioners were taken to several interesting locations&nbsp;in Sarawak, such as the Semenggok Wildlife Center, Kampung Danu and a longhouse in Batang Ai,\u201d&nbsp;he told reporters after attending a Mega Fam programme\u2019s&nbsp;farewell dinner&nbsp;here, tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musa said,&nbsp;with the experience foreign&nbsp;media practitioners could share interesting stories in their respective countries, as well as promote the uniqueness, cultural richness and the interesting destinations in Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want tourists coming to Malaysia, to also visit Sarawak, so they can stay longer in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If they stay longer, then they will spend more, so indirectly, the country\u2019s revenue from tourist arrivals&nbsp; will also increase,\u201d&nbsp;he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first quarter of this year, for the first three months alone, the revenue from tourist arrivals recorded&nbsp;RM21.4 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&nbsp;BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUCHING, July 20 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Eighteen local and foreign media practitioners\u00a0participated in Malaysia\u2019s Mega Familiarisation\u00a0Programme (Mega Fam)\u00a0to\u00a0experience\u00a0first-hand the\u00a0 uniqueness of Sarawak. The journalists who participated in the programme this time were from Australia, Germany, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Singapore. The Mega Fam themed \u2018Let&#8217;s Do Something Different\u2019&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}