The Melaka government has been urged to continue to develop iconic tourism products to enable the state to be a destination of choice for tourists.
The prime minister's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor said among measures that could be carried out by the state included stepping up the maintenance and promotion of tourist spots. These efforts would go a long way in making Malaysia among the world's top ten tourism earners," she said at a dinner in conjunction with the International Baba Nyonya Festival 2011 here Sunday night.
On the festival, she said it was one of the ways to promote Melaka's tourism products through cultural diversity while creating awareness among tourists on the Baba Nyonya culture in Malaysia. Calling on the festival to be included in the state's tourism calendar, Rosmah said it would be a platform to assail Malaysian arts and cultures to the global stage while inculcating the younger generation to appreciate them.
Among events arrayed for the three-day festival, which started on Friday, were a seminar, a cooking demonstration by chef Florence Tan, and demonstrations on how to stitch Kebaya Nyonya (traditional dress) embroidery flowers, bake onde-onde (cake), sew beads, tie hair bun and wear a kebaya Nyonya.
Visitors were also entertained to a concert featuring the Baba Nyonya wedding, rendition of dondang sayang and keroncong songs, Kebaya Nyonya fashion show and Kebaya Nyonya beauty pageant at Jonker Walk.
Is this being held again this year- 2012? Are any details available of the event? We would like to attend and take friends from Cape Town to have this cultural experience
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