{"id":26535,"date":"2022-01-24T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T13:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26535"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:58:55","slug":"genting-malaysia-working-on-genting-skyworlds-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-malaysia-working-on-genting-skyworlds-opening","title":{"rendered":"Genting Malaysia working on Genting SkyWorlds opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Genting Malaysia says \u201cpreparations are underway\u201d for its new outdoor theme park but it hasn’t announced an opening date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Malaysia.- Genting Malaysia has confirmed that preparations are underway for the opening of its Genting SkyWorld outdoor theme park but it still hasn’t specified when it will open to the public<\/strong>. Earlier this month,\u00a0analysts at Maybank<\/a>\u00a0predicted that the theme park could open near Chinese New Year on February 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysts said: \u201cWe expected Genting SkyWorlds\u00a0to open on December 10, 2021<\/a>, but it did not come to pass.\u00a0Channel checks inform us that Genting Malaysia is \u2018ironing out\u2019 software issues and hopes to open Genting SkyWorlds for Chinese New Year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last October, analysts at RHB Research visited the venue and described Genting SkyWorlds<\/a>\u00a0as a possible\u00a0\u201ccrowd-puller for other RWG facilities<\/strong>, potentially leading to higher-than-expected visitor arrivals.\u201c\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genting Malaysia to return to profitability in 2022, analysts say<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Genting Malaysia<\/a> <\/strong>could return to profitability in 2022 according to analysts at RHB Investment Bank, despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the new Omicron variant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the report, analysts stated: \u201cMany countries are now better equipped and nimble in handling the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCoupled with the massive cost rationalisation efforts undertaken previously by the casino operators, these should partially cushion the impact<\/strong>. Both the casino operators will resume recovering after the Covid-19 situation stabilises.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genting Malaysia says \u201cpreparations are underway\u201d for its new outdoor theme park but it hasn’t announced an opening date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Genting Malaysia confirms preparations are underway for its Genting SkyWorld outdoor theme park, though an official opening date remains unannounced, with analysts predicting a potential Chinese New Year launch. Despite ongoing pandemic challenges, analysts from RHB Investment Bank project Genting Malaysia to return to profitability in 2022, citing improved pandemic management and prior cost rationalization efforts.","focusai_entities":"Genting Malaysia, Maybank, RHB Research, RHB Investment Bank","focusai_location":"Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Theme Park GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected impact of the Genting SkyWorld theme park's opening on Genting Malaysia's non-gaming revenue streams and overall Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for FY2022?"},{"label":"Operational Readiness Assessment?","query":"How do the reported 'software issues' at Genting SkyWorlds reflect on the broader operational readiness and technology integration within Genting Malaysia's integrated resort ecosystem?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[19394],"class_list":["post-26535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-genting-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26539,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535\/revisions\/26539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}