Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) has upgraded its website to include extensive information for tourists and convention planners.
The BCCK is the first purpose-built convention centre on the island. When completed it will also feature a shopping centre, marina, offices and an international hotel.
BCCK is pursuing environmental benchmarks in conservation, recycling and waste management. The centre features unique rainforest-themed architecture, and a major feature of the centre’s design when viewed from the outside is its roof structure.
The roof is shaped in the form of a ‘ririg’ leaf, a rainforest plant that plays an important role in the local indigenous cultures. With environmental preservation in mind, rain water will automatically be channelled down the central vein of the leaf on the rooftop and collected for irrigation in the centre’s gardens and grounds. More at www.bcck.com.my.
DECEMBER 2008
First site visit for Sarawak Minister of Urban Development and Tourism
Sarawak Minister for Urban Development and Tourism (MUDT) Datuk Michael Manyin Anak Jawong (3rd Right) visited the construction site of the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) last Friday, Dec 19. Other participants of the site tour included (L-R) Assistant Secretary for MUDT Caroline Chen, CEO of the Sarawak Convention Bureau Jill Henry, Chief Executive of BCCK; Trevor McCartney, Permanent Secretary for MUDT; Akit Sebli and Manager of Corporate Affairs for the Sarawak Tourism Board; Benedict Jimbau. Visitors were impressed with the scale of the project and the state of completion of the structure. The group toured the various meeting rooms, reception and registration areas, exhibition space and the site of the Centre’s restaurant that overlooks the Sarawak River. The grand opening of BCCK, the largest convention centre on the island of Borneo, is scheduled for October 2009.
BORNEO Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) will open its doors on October 18 with 23 confirmed bookings for regional and international conferences, as high-end room inventory in Sarawak soars.
The first purpose-built convention centre in Sarawak will cater to events of up to 5,000 delegates and boast a 2,800-square-metre hall.
Room inventory in Sarawak will also increase to cater to the growing MICE market and large conferences of 1,000 delegates and more. The state capital, Kuching, is expected to increase its high-end stock by 1,100 rooms by end-2010, doubling the number of four- and five-star properties.
Four Points by Sheraton opened in March this year, adding 421 rooms and providing meeting facilities close to Kuching International Airport.

In the heart of the city, the Pullman Interhill Kuching is nearing completion and will add another 389 rooms when it opens at year-end. Plaza Merdeka Hotel Kuching, due to open in 2010, will pump another 290 rooms into the city's inventory.
Kuching Tower will open next to the BCCK in 2011, with a five-star hotel occupying 24 floors of the 39-storey tower.

Existing city hotels provide 1,051 high-end rooms spread out among the Grand Margherita Hotel (288 rooms, four-star), Riverside Majestic Hotel (241 rooms, five star), Hilton Kuching (315 rooms, five-star) and Merdeka Palace Hotel and Suites (207 rooms, five star).
Borneo is to step into a new era with the launching of its first purpose-built, world-class convention centre.
Pyrotechnics, music and food will be the order of the day under the leaf-shaped roof of the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) when it opens on October 18.
Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, the great naturalist and co-proposer of the theory of evolution (with Sir Charles Darwin) did most of his work on natural selection in the rainforests of Sarawak and nature and preservation are deeply rooted in BCCK’s operating policies.
The roof of the building is shaped like that of a ‘ririk’ (phacelophrynium maximum) leaf, which is still used for food wrapping on the island. The iconic roof structure features a five-metre track that will channel rainwater to be collected and irrigate the centre’s grounds.
It’s estimated that annually, BCCK will have 100 hours of solar gains, with a minimal amount of heat gain, which translates to less energy consumption for the centre. To control the carbon footprint generated, all major elements of BCCK, such as the existing structural steel, were built locally.
RM195m Kuching convention centre to open next August
KUCHING: The new Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) will boost Sarawak as a destination for conferences and events when it is completed next year.
Currently under construction, the RM195mil centre is scheduled to open for business in August 2009.
BCCK chief executive Trevor McCartney said the centre’s target market was international associations and corporations as well as local and regional organisations.
“We will initially target national and regional events while international events are our long-term target.
“For next year, we’re targeting 170 events ranging from banquets to meetings and conventions,” he said during a media briefing and project site tour recently.
Located on the Kuching Isthmus about 5km from the city centre, BCCK is the first purpose-built convention centre in Borneo and will accommodate up to 5,000 people in its Great Hall.
“The Great Hall can be divided to accommodate smaller conventions and exhibitions. Our target is events with 800 to 1,500 delegates,” McCartney said.
Other facilities include 14 meeting rooms, a restaurant called The Leaf which will serve international and Asian cuisines, a business centre and a covered carpark with 800 spaces.
McCartney said that one of the centre’s unique features was its roof designed in the shape of a leaf with environmental conservation in mind.
“Rainwater will run down a track on the roof to water features on both sides of the building where it will be collected and recycled,” he said.
Besides boosting the convention business in Sarawak, BCCK will act as a catalyst for development in the Isthmus area.
A five-star hotel, marina, shopping complex and office towers are developments planned for the area over the next 10 years, McCartney said.
The Sarawak Convention Bureau has reported a year-end bid success ratio of 68 per cent securing 28 new conventions for Sarawak. These events are expected to deliver 51,000 delegate days and over RM 35 million in direct delegate expenditure at conventions to be held over the next three years.
Major conventions and exhibitions scheduled for 2009 include the 8th World Congress on Engineering Education, Malaysian Sterile Services Association Conference & Exhibition, District 51 Toastmasters International Convention, Malaysian Association of Orthodontists Scientific Conference and the 11th National Congress of Tailor’s Guilds Malaysia.
Next year will also see the mid-year opening of the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching situated on the Kuching Isthmus. Conventions confirmed for the new centre include the International Energy Week Expo in November, the 3rd Asia International Conference on Water Resources and Renewable Energy and the Australian Universities International Alumni Convention in 2010.
Two new Kuching hotels will be opening next year adding around 800 new rooms to the city. The Four Points Sheraton is nearing completion and will open in January with the Novotel Interhill is scheduled to open later in the year.
The Bureau is currently working on fifteen new bid opportunities for potential national and international conventions.
"Having strong forward bookings for association conferences is an important stabilizing factor in turbulent economic times as associations have a constitutional requirement to meet," said Jill Henry, chief executive of the Sarawak Convention Bureau.
"This means their conventions usually proceed albeit with reduced delegate numbers unlike corporate meeting business which is more volatile." - Sarawak’s international profile in the meetings industry also received a major boost with the Bureau’s four minute video commercial – Recharge in a New World – Sarawak, Borneo - winning three major international tourism awards.
Sarawak’s marketing campaign “Harnessing the power of story telling to launch a new meetings destination” also won the 2008 ICCA Best Marketing Award. The award – a first for Malaysia - was presented last month at the International Convention and Congress Association (ICCA) General Assembly in Victoria, Canada.
Next year the Bureau will focus on Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in a concerted push for more national and regional meetings.
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