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Verified Hospitality Results

Hotels are remembered through moments, not room lists.

First-person hotel and resort storytelling built around arrival, the people working the property, its character, and the small details guests actually remember.

Metricool figures. Platform-specific, per single post — never combined.

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The Waterfront Hotel Kuching · 186,744 TikTok views

Property stories that performed.

Perkasa Hotel Mt Kinabalu

Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia

211,900

TikTok views · single post

A mountain-view stay told through arrival, the cold morning, and the view guests actually wake up to.

Borneo Royale Hotel Tawau

Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia

190,763

TikTok views · single post

A working-city hotel filmed the way a traveller uses it — check-in, room, and the staff who set the tone.

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The Waterfront Hotel Kuching

Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

186,744

TikTok views · single post

157,175
Reach
11,964
Likes
782
Shares

A city stay told through arrival, the river view, and the people who make the property feel lived-in.

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Shangri-La Tanjung Aru

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

175,287

Instagram views · single post

152,336
Reach
3,021
Likes
~70.0%
Retention

A resort stay shown as a full day — morning light, the beach, and the people behind the experience.

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Mandarin Hotel Kota Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

163,258

TikTok views · single post

An honest city-centre stay — what the room really gives you, and what is a short walk away.

Langkah Syabas Beach Resort

Papar, Sabah, Malaysia

137,023

TikTok views · single post

A beach resort filmed from the sand up — arrival, the room, and the quiet hours guests remember.

Flagship Case — Sutera Sanctuary Lodges

Four Properties. One Hosted Journey. Millions of Video Views.

Terry stayed at all four properties — Kinabalu Park, Laban Rata, Poring Hot Spring, and Manukan Island — on a hosted creator journey facilitated by Sutera Sanctuary Lodges, spanning the mountain climb, rainforest and hot springs, and an island stay. The hosted journey received broad Instagram and TikTok coverage, with additional Reels beyond the seven selected TikTok highlights. Terry confirms the arrangement was to credit/tag Sutera Sanctuary Lodges on every Reel from the experience; the full content count is not stated. No paid contract or official tourism-board contract is claimed.

Experience operator: Sutera Sanctuary Lodges

4,901,921 combined video views across seven selected high-performing TikTok videos

Creator-reported selection · not unique reach · full selection screenshots pending. These seven high-performing TikTok videos are significant highlights, not the full deliverables or total content produced. Their combined views are not total campaign views, unique reach or views uniquely attributable to each property. No guaranteed results or unverified Instagram metrics are implied. The featured examples below retain their individual TikTok results and are not the complete seven-video selection.

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The older climber

Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

1,883,015

TikTok views · single post

1,590,978
Reach
122,546
Likes
3,891
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Terry, the older climber, walking and talking with Ayden, Bella Estilla’s son, on Mount Kinabalu.

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Bella before the climb

Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

744,025

TikTok views · single post

634,464
Reach
38,385
Likes

The hours before the ascent, told through the person about to do it.

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Syed Saddiq pre-climb moment

Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

640,289

TikTok views · single post

491,509
Reach
48,384
Likes

An unscripted encounter at the trailhead before the climb begins.

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Space Dolla encounter

Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

628,897

TikTok views · single post

519,433
Reach
30,379
Likes

A chance meeting on the mountain that became its own story.

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Poring Hot Springs — Sumandak moment

Poring, Sabah, Malaysia

462,448

TikTok views · single post

A hot-springs afternoon carried by the people there rather than the facility itself.

Manukan Island · Sutera Sanctuary Lodges

One stay can become an entire content ecosystem.

Soap-making and traditional games with the team

Manukan Island, Sabah, Malaysia

67,664

TikTok views · single post

The island staff teaching their own traditions to a guest.

Arang Restaurant — island dining

Manukan Island, Sabah, Malaysia

45,510

TikTok views · single post

Dinner on the island, filmed from the table.

Check-in and villa room tour

Manukan Island, Sabah, Malaysia

23,988

TikTok views · single post

The full arrival: jetty, check-in, and what the villa actually looks like.

Supporting results from the same stay

  • Breakfast on the sand17,588TikTok
  • Arrival and recovery at Manukan Island Resort16,098TikTok
  • Resort and property experience16,062TikTok
  • Departure — the boat goodbye15,441TikTok
  • Island resort view13,093TikTok

More hospitality work.

131,029

TikTok views · single post

My Inn Hotel Lahad Datu

Lahad Datu, Sabah

126,366

TikTok views · single post

The Shore / Era Suites

Malaysia

94,987

TikTok views · single post

Sutera Sanctuary Lodges — Nepenthes Suite King

Sabah, Malaysia

77,343

TikTok views · single post

Jazz Suites Kuching

Kuching, Sarawak

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67,743

TikTok views · single post

Concorde Hotel Shah Alam

Shah Alam, Selangor

54,146

TikTok views · single post

Sigar Hotel Kota Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

41,244

TikTok views · single post

LA Hotel Tawau

Tawau, Sabah

29,755

TikTok views · single post

Elopura Hotel Sandakan

Sandakan, Sabah

What a hotel partner gets.

Arrival-to-experience storytelling

The stay filmed as a guest journey — jetty or lobby, check-in, room, and the hours in between.

Human and staff moments

The people who run the property carry the film. That is what makes a hotel remembered instead of listed.

Multiple angles from one stay

A single stay can produce several vertical stories — dining, rooms, experiences, departure — rather than one room tour.

Cross-platform organic assets

Vertical assets published organically, with tagging and location credit when included in agreed deliverables.

Give me the stay. I’ll find the story.