Importance Of Hari Raya

Tourism plays a significant role in the economic and financial health of most economies (Goeldner and Ritchie, 2006; Hall, 2003; Mohd Hairi, Mohd Salehuddin, Muhammad Izzat and Zulhan, 2007). Most countries in Asia for example, trust more on tourism receipts than on income originated from the exports of agricultural products or manufactured goods. Thus, a lot of emphasis is placed on addressing the need to set up the right logistics and develop the right infrastructure to bring in number of passengers of tourists from the developed world to the exotic locations. Money is spent on advertising places of attraction, building airports, connecting roads to hotels and training tourist guides to speak various world’s important languages. Malaysia is

Hari Raya meant celebration day for Muslim throughout the world especially the Malays in Malaysia. Variety of Malays traditional foods such as Ketupat (rice or glutinous rice wrapped in leave), Lemang (glutinous rice cooked in bamboo tubes), Serunding (desiccated meat or chicken or fish fried with chilli), cakes, sweets, biscuits and various delicacies are served on the day of Hari Raya. Chinese New Year is a Chinese religious or cultural event. Foods such as Nian Gao (sticky rice pudding cake), fish vegetables, oyster, abalone, fish balls (yu-wan) and meat balls (jou-wan), duck or chicken are served during the festive celebration. As for the Indian, Deepavali which is also known as the festival of lights is celebrated. A wide variety of traditional spicy foods are served such as chicken tandoori, prawn sambal, fish head curry, thosai, chapatti, idlis, and naans. A tempting spread of sweets such as halwa and laddu are also served during this festival. In fact, there are many other festivals celebrated by other ethnic groups particularly in Borneo Island such as Hari Gawai, Hari Menuai, Hari