GENTING MALAYSIA BERHAD

GENTING MALAYSIA BERHAD stands as one of the most defining forces in Southeast Asia’s leisure and hospitality landscape — a company that transformed entertainment into an integrated experience.

Emerging from the broader Genting vision founded atop the mountains of Genting Highlands, the company evolved into the specialised vehicle responsible for driving the Group’s global resort, gaming, and hospitality ambitions. What began as a singular mountaintop destination gradually expanded into a multinational network of integrated resorts spanning Asia, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, and beyond.

Today, Genting Malaysia is recognised not merely as a resort operator, but as a creator of destinations — ecosystems where hospitality, entertainment, gaming, retail, conventions, and lifestyle experiences converge into immersive worlds of escape.

Its journey reflects a powerful truth — that destinations are not merely built, but orchestrated to become experiences people return to across generations.

Founder:

Part of Genting Group founded by Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Lim Goh Tong

Current Leadership:

Deputy Chairman & Chief Executive: Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay

The leadership continues to drive the organisation with a focus on global expansion, experiential innovation, integrated resort excellence, and long-term destination development.

Some companies build hotels — GENTING MALAYSIA builds destinations.

Its story traces back to one of Malaysia’s boldest entrepreneurial visions. In the 1960s, Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong imagined something many considered impossible — a world-class highland resort built atop the cool mountains of Genting Highlands. At a time when the terrain was remote, inaccessible, and technically challenging, the idea itself seemed improbable. Yet through persistence, engineering determination, and long-term belief, Resorts World Genting emerged — gradually becoming one of Malaysia’s most iconic tourism destinations.

By 1980, Resorts World Sdn. Bhd. was formally established to operate and expand the growing leisure and hospitality ecosystem. The mission extended far beyond conventional hospitality. This was not simply about hotels or gaming facilities — it was about creating a fully integrated environment where entertainment, leisure, lifestyle, and escapism existed within a single destination.

Visitors no longer travelled merely for accommodation. They travelled for experience.

A defining transformation came in 1989 through a major restructuring within the Genting Group. The company assumed control of the Group’s gaming, resort, and hotel operations, positioning itself as the primary engine behind Genting’s integrated hospitality expansion. This marked the beginning of Genting Malaysia’s evolution into a specialised global resort operator.

From there, expansion accelerated.

Resorts World Genting evolved continuously — adding hotels, casinos, retail complexes, indoor and outdoor attractions, international entertainment venues, convention infrastructure, and eventually large-scale theme park developments. The destination became not merely a resort, but an ecosystem capable of serving millions of visitors annually.

Yet the ambition extended beyond Malaysia.

The company began establishing international footprints through acquisitions, investments, and development projects across key global leisure markets. Resorts World-branded properties emerged in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, and Egypt — extending a Malaysian-born hospitality concept onto the international stage.

One of the company’s defining strengths was its understanding that modern tourism is built on immersion. Gaming alone was no longer sufficient. Successful destinations required integrated experiences — combining accommodation, entertainment, shopping, dining, events, attractions, and lifestyle into unified ecosystems capable of attracting visitors across generations.

This philosophy shaped the evolution of Genting Malaysia into one of Asia’s most recognisable integrated resort operators.

From a mountaintop dream in Malaysia to a global constellation of leisure destinations, the company’s journey reflects a powerful truth — that hospitality, when scaled through imagination and experience, becomes an industry capable of shaping culture, tourism, and memory itself.

Core Activities:

• Integrated resort ownership and operations

• Gaming, hospitality, and entertainment ecosystems

• International expansion of Resorts World destinations

• Theme parks, retail, and convention operations

• Lifestyle, leisure, and tourism infrastructure development

The company focuses on creating large-scale integrated resort ecosystems that combine hospitality, entertainment, gaming, and destination experiences within unified environments.

Notable Offerings Include:

• Resorts World Genting — Malaysia’s premier integrated resort destination

• Resorts World global portfolio across the United States, United Kingdom, Bahamas, and Egypt

• Hotels, casinos, theme parks, retail, and entertainment complexes

• Convention centres and lifestyle destinations

• Integrated leisure and tourism ecosystems

These offerings position Genting Malaysia as one of Southeast Asia’s leading integrated resort and hospitality groups.

1980 — Establishment as Resorts World Sdn. Bhd.

1989 — Listing on Bursa Malaysia and restructuring of resort operations

1990s — Expansion of Resorts World Genting as Malaysia’s leading leisure destination

2000s — Growth into international gaming and hospitality markets

2009 — Renamed GENTING MALAYSIA BERHAD

2010s — Expansion into global integrated resort developments and theme park investments

2020s — Continued strengthening of international resort portfolio and experiential tourism offerings

GENTING MALAYSIA BERHAD has played a transformative role in shaping Malaysia’s tourism, hospitality, and leisure economy.

Through Resorts World Genting, the company pioneered the concept of integrated resort ecosystems within Malaysia — combining gaming, hospitality, retail, entertainment, conventions, and attractions into a single destination model long before such developments became globally mainstream.

The Group also positioned Malaysia as an internationally recognised tourism destination, attracting millions of local and foreign visitors annually while supporting the broader tourism ecosystem through employment generation, hospitality supply chains, retail activity, and infrastructure development.

Its influence extends beyond tourism alone. Genting Malaysia helped elevate Southeast Asian hospitality expertise onto the global stage through its international expansion strategy, demonstrating that a Malaysian-born resort brand could operate competitively within mature global leisure markets.

The company further contributed to the evolution of experiential tourism — where destinations are no longer defined solely by accommodation or attractions, but by immersive, multi-layered experiences capable of serving families, tourists, business travellers, and entertainment audiences simultaneously.

From gaming operations and convention tourism to theme parks and entertainment infrastructure, Genting Malaysia became part of the larger transformation of tourism into a lifestyle-driven global industry.

Beyond physical developments, its true contribution lies in experience creation.

The company built environments where leisure, entertainment, hospitality, and escapism converge — shaping how millions of people experience travel, recreation, and destination culture across generations.

Some companies operate resorts — GENTING MALAYSIA creates worlds of escape.

From a single mountaintop destination once considered impossible to build, the company evolved into a global hospitality and entertainment institution whose destinations now welcome visitors from around the world.

Its legacy is not measured solely by hotels constructed, resorts operated, or attractions developed, but by the memories created within them — family journeys, celebrations, entertainment experiences, and moments of escape from everyday life.

Across mountains, cities, casinos, hotels, theme parks, and entertainment halls, GENTING MALAYSIA BERHAD continues to prove a timeless truth — that the true power of hospitality is not simply to accommodate people, but to transport them beyond the ordinary.