About VMCC
What is the Visit Malaysia Cyber Campaign (VMCC) all about? VMCC is actually not a new concept and has quite an interesting history to it. We think so anyway! It came about as the brainchild of a number of concerned Malaysians who were upset by the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997.
Almost exactly 10 years ago.
How far we have come since then - when our KLSE dropped to 262 and everything seemed to be crashing down. There seemed to be little light at the end of the tunnel. Then a group of Malaysians got together and decided that there was a way out and that it was up to the people to do something about it.
Malaysia's biggest asset is Malaysia itself. Its tourism market is its biggest income generator. Why not invite the world to visit Malaysia? With that germ of an idea, this group of Malaysians who believed in the spirit of "Negara Kita, Tanggungjawab Kita" - our country, our responsibility - set to work.
The idea was simple then.
To set up a website to send out e-cards to as many people worldwide as possible. Amazingly enough, there was support from everywhere - from the Prime Minister then to the taxi drivers. From corporates, the media to school children. Around one million e-cards were sent out in that campaign.
Now, a decade later, two drivers of the previous Visit Malaysia Cyber Campaign: Pat Lu of Rayma Sdn Bhd, a Professional Conference Organiser, and Gerard Lim, CEO of a VOIP/ telecommunications company decided to team together again to celebrate VMCC 2007. They joined forces together with Anne Chai, an event manager and Sharon Saw, a writer and content manager, who met Pat through the original VMCC as she was administering the NEAC website then, and we are now proud to present the Visit Malaysia Cyber Campaign for 2007.
This time, with the advance in technology, we can use SMS and MMS via mobile phones as well as our e-cards to send invites to our friends.
Why 2007? Because we are celebrating 50 years of nationhood. What better reason to visit Malaysia? So let's start now and invite all our friends to Visit Malaysia in 2007!