VAISAKHI DAY

Vaisakhi day also known as Baisakhi or Vasakhi is an ancient harvest festival in Punjab province, which also marked the beginning of the new sun year, and new harvest season. The vaisakhi day will celebrate on 14 April 2011.

It is the important festival to Sikhs. The history was start in March 30^th, 1699. The history start when Guru Gobind Singh that the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs founded the Akal Khalsa (Community of the Pure) at a ceremony established at Keshgarh Sahib near Anandpur. The Akal Khalsa played a significant role in resistance against Mughal rule.

To instill the courage of fellow humans, Guru Gobind Singh made ​​a strong oration, and showed them his divine mission to restore and maintain the Sikh Sikhism. At the end of his speech, teacher flashed a sword unsheathed, and said that every major act that starts with the same great sacrifices and demands a head for specific performances. To call the teacher, Daya Ram, a Khatri Lahore offers himself. Teachers bring in the tent. A few moments later he comes back with his sword dripping blood, and asked for another head. One by one four more serious fans namely Daram Das a Jat Delhi, Chand Mokham a cleaning of Dwarka (Gujarat), Himmat a cooking Jagannath (Orissa) and Sahib Chand a barber from bidar (Karnataka) who offered their heads. Every time the Guru took a person in the tent, he came out with a bloodied sword in his hand.

Amazed with attitude their teachers and believed that he was raging, people began to disperse. After that, Guru Gobind Singh appears with five men dressed in white works. He was baptized the five in a new and unique ceremony called ‘Khande in Pahul’ (edged sword Armit), today it’s called Sikh Amrit. After this, the Guru asked five baptized Sikhs to baptize him as well. They later title as Singhs, as the five people whom he loves, the first member of the new community, which will be called the Khalsa, meaning ‘pure’. Guru Gobind Singh state that the Panj Pyare or Five Beloved Ones will be the embodiment of the Guru himself, “Where there are Panj Pyare, there I am. When the Five meet, they are holy saints.” This “holy warriors” were to dedicate their lives to serving others and the pursuit of justice for people of all religions. Teachers also said that whenever and wherever five was baptized or Amritdhari Sikhs come together, the teacher will appear. All those who receive Amrit from five was baptized Sikhs will be infused with spirit of courage and strength to sacrifice. So with these principles, Guru Gobind Singh established the Khalsa Panth, Order Pure Ones.

Teachers also gave his new khalsa a unique identity, be debated, and different. Teachers give the gift of Bana, a special Sikh clothing and headwear. He also offered five symbols of purity and courage. These symbols, worn by all was baptized Sikhs of both sexes, which is known today as Five KS :

•           Kesh, unshorn hair

•           Kangha, the wooden comb

•           Karra, the iron (or steel) bracelet

•           Kirpan, the sword

•           Kachera, the underwear

This act of total surrender of one's life to the service of the AKAL (God), the Timeless One, and at the feet of Guru Gobind Singh created the Sikh religion. For many centuries after that, the first male child of all families of Hindus in Punjab was ordained as a Sikh.

TOURISM DEFINITION

Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes or the provision of services to support this leisure travel. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited". Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. In 2004, there were over 763 million international tourist arrivals. Tourism is vital for many countries, due to the income generated by the consumption of goods and services by tourists, the taxes levied on businesses in the tourism industry, and the opportunity for employment in the service industries associated with tourism. These service industries include transportation services such as cruise ships and taxis, accommodation such as hotels, restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues, and other hospitality industry services such as spas and resorts.

IBN BATUTA AND MARCO POLO

THE HISTORY OF TOURISM (LEADER)

Marco Polo left his home in Venice in 1254 when he was seventeen years old to accompany his father and uncle on a journey to the Far East.[2] In the over twenty years that elapsed from the time of his departure to the time he returned home, Marco Polo traveled extensively throughout the Middle Kingdom, South East Asia, and the House of Islam. His travels did not take him to Africa, however, or very far into India.[3] Nevertheless, he probably traveled more during his life than any other European of his day.

Ibn Battuta, however, was a little different from Marco Polo. Ibn Battuta was born a Muslim in Morocco in 1304. When he was twenty-one, he set out by himself on a journey of the entire Islamic World. [4]Although his travels eventually took him to China, he never traveled much in Europe.[5] In all, he traveled over 75,000 miles during his journey and reported meeting over 2,000 people including sixty rulers.[6] Thus, Ibn Battuta was probably the most widely traveled person of his day and certainly traveled much further than did Marco Polo.

DEFINITION OF S.W.O.T ANALYSIS

SWOT analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, opportunities and Threats involved in a project or business.

~ Strengths refer to characteristic of the business or team that an advantage over others in the industry.

~ Weaknesses refer to characteristic that place the firm at a disadvantages relative to others.

~ Opportunities refer to external chances to make greater sales or profits in the environment.

~ Threats refer to external elements in the environment that could cause trouble for the business.

HARVEST FESTIVAL

Harvest Festival will celebrat in 30-31 May. Harvest festival or any other name is (Tadau Kaamatan) or in the Kadazan language was “Mangavau”. It is a special celebration ceremony in honor of “Bambazon” the spirit of rice. Celebration “Mangavau” is usually held after the rice harvest. Among the interesting celebration that held the dance Sumazau. This dance is danced by the peasants made up of men and women to wear traditional dress. This dance is in tandem with the gongs. This dance was danced with both hands raised to shoulder level, and flown like a bird wing.

In addition, from dance performances Sumazau, also held a singing contest called Sugandoi, bodybuilding show, ‘Unduk Ngadau’, and type of arts and crafts show. Competition like hitting the gong and sports people also become one of the major events in the festival.Among the popular dishes during the festival were drinking fermented or “kinomol”, a type of traditional liquor. Lounge is their traditional drink made from either rice or tapioca. The rice is fermented in a “Tajau” for a week or tapioca fermented for two to three weeks. Usually mixed fermented with yeast to accelerate up the process of “feel” to the fermented. They used a small stick called “Sumbiling” to draw water from fermented in large jars. Sumbiling usually used for drinking water which is made from fermented tapioca. In addition, they also use a special glass called “Singgarung” is made from bamboo.

According to the story orally, Kinoingan (God) and his wife Suminundu had a daughter named Huminodun. Kinoingan was killing him daughter to save our people from not enough food. Huminodun killed and his body was buried according to tradition more. Supposedly, the bodies Huminodun have been producing all kinds of seed plants are the main food for us now. One such plant is the seed of rice. As part of the body that produce seeds Huminodun, it come the belief that rice has a spirit named “Bambazon”.

Starting from this event Kadazan Harvest Festival started ceremony (Harvest Festival) as celebrated today. Festivals such provision will be hoping for better future and good. Ceremony tribute to spirit of the rice paddy that the harvest is complete and has been safety placed in Ketawai (Tangkob) of the former place to store rice.

Sumazau dance

It is a traditional dance, the people of Sabah which was famous in Sabah and in Malaysia. It is a traditional ethnic dance is often performed in Kadazandusun Tadau Kaamatan that means Harvest Day celebrated in the state of each month. Dance Sumazau this seems to indicate that farmers are driving the birds from eating their rice crops. Each dancer is the implementation this dance should be moved only a few centimeters from the other without touching the dancers. Fulfill various functions of ritual dance as the dancer’s dance Sumazau say gratitude for activities related to painting and harvesting rice, and also to reject army, spirit worship and treat illnesses.

Sumazua dancers of both men and women usually wore black and decorated with attractive patterns using gold thread. The women decorated with scarves and belts (Tangkong) that made of coin silver (trade dollars). The men will usually wear ‘tajak’.

REMEMBERING DOUBLE SIX

Remembering double six is one tragedy that plane crash in Sabah and give bad tragedy. This was occurs in 6.6.1976 and involving six (6) leaders in Sabah. The plane, operated by Sabah Air, coming from Labuan crashed in the district of Sembulan in Kota Kinabalu upon approaching Kota Kinabalu International Airport. On the plane were eleven passengers, including the Chief Minister and three of his friends Cabinet.

Many of the stories related with these events. One of the stories, the plane ran out of petrol and had sharply into the swamp in Sembulan.This event is touched on the political matters. The history of this events also relate with there are certain parties that have their own agenda to remove the Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens in order to get the oil importance and resources of Sabah, including that lot of logs.

Just like an airplane landing at Kota Kianabalu Airport (old) in Tanjung Aru evening, somehow fell into the sea near the coast in Sembulan and lost near the stage-house by a meter. All eleven passengers were killed. Chief Minister, Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens (also known as Dato’ Donald Stephens) has led his party to win in political of Sabah general selection just a few weeks ago in April, defeating the party led by Commitments USNO. Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens that a half-Australian and half-Kadazan, first became Chief Minister on 31 August 1963, the day North Borneo into Sabah, after getting autonomy from England. His resigned as a Chief Minister on 1 January 1965, opened the way for Dato’ Peter Lo, that first Chinese to become Chief Ministry of Sabah.

 In this incident, have 0ne black box which still cannot be found. The black box was the only one who can expose this incident. Until now the remembering double six still give question mark to our people.

 The list of persons that killed in the tragedy :

·         Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens (Chief Ministry of Sabah)

·         Datuk Peter Mojuntin (state minister of local government)

·         Datuk Chong Tahin Vun (minister of communication and public works)

·         Datuk Salleh Sulong (state finance minister)

·         Darius Binion (assistant minister)

·         Wahid Andu (permanent secretary of finance minister)

·         Syed Hussein Wafa (director of national economic planning unit)

·         Ishak Atan (private secretary)

·         Kopral mohd Said (bodyguard)

·         Gandhi J Nathan (pilot)

·         Johari (son to the Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens)

Target Tourist Arrival 2011

The Tourism Ministry is targeting an increase of 25 million tourists visiting the country this year, compared with 24 million last year, with a projected tourism revenue of RM60 billion. 

Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said in order to achieve the target, her ministry would continue efforts to woo more visitors to visit Malaysia. 

She said the efforts included continuing discussions with local and foreign airlines to provide more direct flights to major towns in the country.

“We may be able to meet the target by increasing the number of flights from abroad to the major towns like Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu, Penang or Melaka,” she told reporters after attending a Chinese New year programme organised by the Tourism Ministry at the Dataran Raub, here last night. 

Dr Ng, who is also the Member of Parliament for Raub, hoped that this year there would be more tourists who would be staying up to 10 days, thus spending more in the country.

She said the ministry was targeting to woo more tourists from Russia, India, China, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Belgium, Holland and the Middle East.