{"id":26821,"date":"2022-02-01T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26821"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:44:34","slug":"genting-skyworlds-to-launch-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-skyworlds-to-launch-next-week","title":{"rendered":"Genting SkyWorlds to launch next week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Genting Malaysia Bhd has announced its new outdoor theme park will have a soft opening next Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia.- After some back and forth over whether&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-malaysia-working-on-genting-skyworlds-opening\">Genting SkyWorlds theme park<\/a>&nbsp;would open in time for Chinese New Year, Genting Malaysia has announced its outdoor theme park will open on February 8. According to its website<strong>, tickets will be on sale from February 4<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MYR3.3bn (US$789m) theme park is seen as a possible crowd-puller for other Resorts World Genting facilities. It has 9 themed worlds across 26 acres with 26 rides and attractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s estimated that visitor arrivals to Genting\u2019s resort in Malaysia could increase to 23 million and 27 million people in the fiscal year 2022 and fiscal year 2023 respectively. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, 29 million people visited in fiscal year 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-skyworlds-might-open-for-chinese-new-year-analysts-say\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maybank IB Research<\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>has previously reported that it expects Genting Malaysia\u2019s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) to increase by 501 per cent in fiscal year 2022 after Genting SkyWorlds opens to MYR3.23bn (US$767.9m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genting Malaysia Bhd has announced its new outdoor theme park will have a soft opening next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18219,"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 Bhd is poised for a significant operational uplift with the soft opening of its MYR3.3bn (US$789m) Genting SkyWorlds theme park on February 8. This strategic capital expenditure is projected to substantially increase visitor arrivals to Resorts World Genting, with Maybank IB Research forecasting a 501% surge in Genting Malaysia's FY2022 EBITDA, underscoring its potential as a key revenue driver and market differentiator.","focusai_entities":"Genting Malaysia Bhd, Resorts World Genting, Maybank IB Research","focusai_location":"Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Theme Park ROI","query":"What is the projected timeline for Genting Malaysia to achieve a positive return on investment (ROI) from the MYR3.3bn Genting SkyWorlds theme park, considering the anticipated visitor uplift and EBITDA growth?"},{"label":"Cross-Vertical Synergy","query":"How will Genting Malaysia strategically leverage the Genting SkyWorlds theme park to enhance cross-vertical patron engagement and drive incremental GGR and NGR across its casino and hospitality segments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[19394],"class_list":["post-26821","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\/26821","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=26821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26851,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821\/revisions\/26851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}