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We have 18 groups in 2005 (possibly due to Miri just elevated into city in 2005) and 15 groups in 2006. The visits have helped to promote the popularity of Miri especially the majority of the groups are government agencies. The visits also help the local communities as, apart from hoteliers, they will definitely patronize food outlets, souvenir shops and so forth. The increasing groups of visitors coming to Miri indicate that there is something here for them to learn. Most of the groups coming to Miri would like to find out the Council's success and know-how in carrying out the following programmes :-

1. Local Agenda 21 programme (how we promote sustainable development for Miri City i.e. the development that has taken place should benefit the present community and it should be beneficial (sustainable) to future generation.



2. Landscaping and beautification programmes especially our nicely landscaped and maintained urban parks. Miri City Fan Park has been judged as the best urban park under the National Level Landscape Competition held in 2001.



3. Cleanliness in the city centre including the city centre. We have adopted a system thereby the cleaning contracts for road sweeping and litter picking in commercial centre and public roads, are awarded to individual contractors (instead of one single contract covering the whole of Miri City centre as practised previously). This has ensured more effective monitoring and supervision to their works. Do not undermine the capability of these individual contractors, as they have their innovative ways to do sweeping like the use of large palm leaves for road sweeping (which is proven more effective than the use of broom).



4. Sanitary Landfill System - after collecting the solid waste or refuse from the households or commercial centres, the rubbish is then sent to Council's Rubbish Transfer Station situated 14 km away from city centre for compacting before the bulk of rubbish is being sent to Bekenu Sanitary Landfill, 65 km away from Miri City for further treatment. Proper treatment will ascertain the rubbish that has been dumped there will not cause any environmental pollution. Apart from this, we also initiate 3R Buy Back Campaign which is being carried out on a regular basis at Dewan Suarah Miri and Morsjaya Commercial centre. The campaign encourages residents to practice reduce, reuse, recycle of rubbish. Apart from this, the Council also permits one company to sort out reusable and recyclable items at the sanitary landfill before the rubbish is being finally treated. This attempt has contributed to the Council's success of recovering 9.5% from rubbish disposed and this is not far from the national target of 11% by end of 2020. The percentage does not include the recovery of scrapped metals.



5. Tourism promotion, the Council is actively involved in promoting Miri as one tourism destination. In this respect, various tourism promotion brochures, VCD and booklet have been produced. Apart from this, the Council also organizes Miri May Fest and Miri City Day Celebration as the selling point to attract visitors to Miri. The programme of Miri City Day Celebration is fixed on and around 20th May each year but the events organised are different each year so that this can induce people to come during this period every year. We have taken the initiative to complement the efforts of the relevant authorities of promoting tourism as we believe the efforts will have an impact to turn Miri into a more vibrant and exciting city full of active economic activities and such trend will benefit all sectors in Miri eventually.