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BALIK PULAU: The logo for Visit Malaysia 2020 will
be unveiled during the national-level Hari Raya open house at the Royal Museum
in Kuala Lumpur on June 22.
“The Prime Minister himself chose the logo on the
eve of Hari Raya.
“The theme and logo will be unveiled then,” Deputy
Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik said during his
Hari Raya open house at SMK Pondok Upeh here yesterday.
A total of 586 entries were submitted for a design
competition in March.
The new official logo for the Visit Malaysia 2020
campaign will have a design symbolising the arts and culture of the
communities.
The design will also symbolise the various
attractive ecotourism products in Malaysia.
Early last year, the Visit Malaysia 2020 logo did
not go down well with social media users, as they generally felt that the
design was not up to standard.
The emblem featured a cartoon of an orang utan in
sunglasses hugging a proboscis monkey, a silhouette of the Petronas Twin Towers
and a turtle on a beach, also wearing sunglasses. It included a caption:
“Travel. Enjoy. Respect.”
Muhammad Bakhtiar said that events meant for Visit
Malaysia 2020 would be required to be coordinated with the secretariat in
charge of the campaign.
“This is to ensure it does not clash with other
events under Visit Malaysia 2020,” he said.
He was responding to the proposal to bring BTS, a
K-pop group, to the country for the celebration next year.
In April, Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq
Syed Abdul Rahman had promised to bring the boy band to Malaysia and Tan Sri
Tony Fernandes was tasked to deliver on this pledge.
Yesterday’s Raya open house was jointly hosted by
Muhammad Bakhtiar, who is also the Balik Pulau MP, together with Pulau Betong
assemblyman Mohd Tuah Ismail and Teluk Bahang assemblyman Zolkifly Md Lazim.
-thestar online.
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