{"id":6846,"date":"2020-05-28T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T12:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:52:30","slug":"genting-highlands-theme-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-highlands-theme-park","title":{"rendered":"Genting Highlands theme park delayed again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Latest delay attributed to Covid-19 pandemic and likely social distancing measures set to be in place for the foreseeable future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia.- A theme park due to be built at Genting <strong><em>Highlands<\/em><\/strong> in Malaysia has announced further delays to its planned opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was scheduled to have its soft opening in the third quarter of this year, but is now likely to delay the opening for another 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest delay is said due to the Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing measures likely to be advised for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to build the theme park was made public in 2014 but has suffered several setbacks, delays and high profile lawsuits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Genting Malaysia recently announced that <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-malaysia-job-casino\">job cuts due to the pandemic were expected<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest delay attributed to Covid-19 pandemic and likely social distancing measures set to be in place for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6850,"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 has announced a further 12-month delay for its Genting Highlands theme park, pushing its soft opening to late 2021. This setback is attributed to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and anticipated social distancing measures, compounding previous project delays and high-profile lawsuits. The company also anticipates job cuts, reflecting broader operational adjustments.","focusai_entities":"Genting Malaysia, Genting Highlands","focusai_location":"Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Financial Impact Analysis","query":"What is the revised capital expenditure timeline and projected impact on Genting Malaysia's GGR and NGR diversification strategy given this extended theme park delay?"},{"label":"Strategic Resilience Assessment","query":"How will Genting Malaysia's governance frameworks adapt to mitigate the long-term operational and market positioning risks associated with repeated delays and workforce reductions at its integrated resort properties?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,161,16333],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009341,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/777009341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}