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MICE
The Borneo
Convention Centre
Kuching
MICE in Sarawak
Borneo Convention Centre Kuching plans
major upgrade in 2020
The spectacular Borneo Convention Centre Kuching plans on
carrying out major upgrades this year, introducing state of the
art audio-visual technology to its repertoire.
News of the upgrade comes as a new
report by Talk2 Media & Events has
underlined the importance of face-toface
meetings, revealing that 93% of
business event delegates find human
interaction and connections important
across business events, with 48%
declaring them to be critical. In view
of this information, BCCK is working
on continuing to expand its global
presence by hosting more and more
international and prestigious events, as
well as expanding physically as a venue
to facilitate more and larger events in the
future.
BCCK was the first purpose-built venue
in Sarawak, designed to host a myriad
of events from large conferences and
exhibitions to smaller meetings within
one venue. It first opened its doors in
2009 and has since hosted over 1,800
events and over 2.4 million delegates and
visitors.
Located 8 km from Kuching’s city
centre, the BCCK is located on
a 6-hectare riverfront site. The
centre’s environmentally conscious
design was inspired by the surrounding
rainforest. A major element - when viewed
from the outside - is the roof structure.
Creative architectural solutions for
function and form of this element were
found in nature. The Centre’s roof is
shaped in the form of a “Ririk” leaf.
“Ririk” grows in abundance in Sarawak,
and due to its large leaves, it is used by
many indigenous tribes for wrapping rice
and food.
The building has a gross floor area
of 36,500 square metres and the
internal design offers complete
flexibility with functional spaces able to
be subdivided into a variety of sizes and
configurations for plenary sessions,
exhibitions and banquets.
In the field of MICE, as organisations
around the world seek to be more
innovative and compete more and more
on creativity, BCCK approached the
question of innovation from a totally
unique perspective: a space created amid
the tranquillity of the tropical rainforest
where any distractions that could take
focus away from simply being innovative
are kept at a distance.
Being secluded however does not mean
disconnection. The centre is equipped
with the latest in communication
technologies with wireless internet
enveloping the whole area, cutting ledge
LAN infrastructure and, from this year,
even more modern AV technology
A FEW KEY EVENTS
FOR 2020:
July:
Men’s Health World Congress
(MHWC) 2020
July:
6 th World Engineering, Science and
Technology Congress (ESTCON) 2020
August:
18 th International Conference on Clean
Energy (ICCE 2020)
November:
AFSM Tripartite Conference 2020
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