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20 Resorts World Bhd Annual Report 2007 REVIEW OF OPERATIONS Genting Highlands Resort 7 GENTING HIGHLANDS RESORT World GENTING - CITY OF ENTERTAINMENT www.genting.com.my World’s Leading Casino Resort (2005 and 2007) Genting Highlands Resort (“Resort”) is Asia’s leading integrated leisure and entertainment resort and a proud winner of World’s Leading Casino Resort (2005 and 2007), awarded by World Travel Awards besides being voted as Asia’s Leading Casino Resort for three consecutive years (2005, 2006 and 2007). In conjunction with Visit Malaysia Year 2007, the Resort has achieved a Herculean feat by attracting a record 19.6 million visitors in 2007. 27% of the visitors were hotel guests whilst the remaining 73% were mainly Malaysian day-trippers. Singaporean hotel guests formed approximately 5% of the total visitor arrivals to the Resort in 2007. Visitor arrivals from India, Middle East, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia and neighbouring countries grew considerably while demand from the domestic market remained healthy in 2007. Football fans were treated to live screenings football of matches on large screens during the EPL Viewing Parties with attractive prizes worth more than RM750,000 such as trips to watch EPL matches live at Emirates Stadium. The long-running resident show “FLY - Defy Gravity” was held at the Pavilion (2,000 capacity). This show was supposed to end in July 2007 but was extended by six months to 1 January 2008. Popularly known as Genting - City of Entertainment, the Resort has become a popular venue for world-class shows and international performances. It has three mega entertainment venues with a total combined capacity of 10,000. It was an exciting year for Genting International Showroom (1,600 capacity) with series of new events staged in conjunction with Visit Malaysia Year 2007. For the first time ever, two new events were introduced, the Genting International Jazz Festival that featured 10 international jazz bands from New Zealand, South Africa, US, UK, Benin, China, Scotland, Cuba, Caribbean as well as from our homeland - Malaysia; as well as the Genting International Magic Festival that featured 20 international magicians performing in front of a live audience. In support of local theatre production, several local theatre performances were staged such as Butterfly Lovers, “Rose Rose, I Love You” and the Cecilia Yap Concert where the events received rave reviews from both the audience and the media. To provide different entertainment flavours to our audience, some of the unique events were held such as “Jump”, a touring Korean Martial Arts Comedy Show and Pakistan Lux Award. 50 Years of Nationhood Ambang Merdeka celebration at Arena of Stars
Resorts World Bhd Annual Report 2007 21 REVIEW OF OPERATIONS (cont’d) Arena of Stars The Arena of Stars (6,000 capacity) is the ideal venue for spectacular starstudded concerts, live-telecast shows and adrenalin-pumping sporting events. In 2007, it hosted some 80 concerts and award shows, attracting more than 330,000 patrons to the resort. Amongst the international artistes performed at the Arena of Stars were Black Eyed Peas, Boyz II Men, Sir Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton John, Michael Learns to Rock, Engelbert Humperdinck, Kitaro and Richard Clayderman. Chinese pop song enthusiasts were thrilled at the wide range of Hong Kong and Taiwanese artistes who performed at the Arena of Stars, including Joey Yung, Sammi Cheng, Sally Yeh, Jolin Tsai, Wu Bai, Fei Yu Ching, Hacken Lee, Cindy Wang, JJ Lin, Su Rei, Yip Tuck Han, Liza Wang, Jack Neo, Vanness Wu, Jonathan Lee, Slyvia Chang, Ronald Cheng, Edmund Leong and Jacky Wu. Other events held at Arena of Stars were MyFM Anniversary Concert, Hands Percussion, Genting Love Song Competition, Star Idol Live, Astro Classic Golden Melody Singing Competition and Eric Tsang Super Variety Show. Popular award shows held included Anugerah Era, Astro Wah Lai Toi Drama Award and the highly acclaimed Zee Cine Award with the appearance of over 50 Bollywood artistes including Shah Rukh Khan. Arena of Stars and Genting International Convention Centre hosted the 50th Year Nationhood World Lion Dance Invitation, National Lion Dance Championship, and Guinness 9 Ball Tournament, which was organized by ESPN. Genting International Magic Festival at Genting International Showroom Genting International Jazz Festival at Genting International Showroom FLY - Defy Gravity at the Pavilion, First World Plaza
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