Genting Highlands

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Genting Highlands Hotel
Genting Highlands Hotel
Genting Highlands
Genting Highlands
Sunset over Genting Highlands
Sunset over Genting Highlands
The Genting Highlands Theme Park
The Genting Highlands Theme Park

Genting Highlands (Malay: Tanah Tinggi Genting) (1700m above sea level 3°24′6.51″N, 101°46′2.62″E) is a mountain peak within the Titiwangsa Mountains on the border between the states of Pahang and Selangor of Peninsular Malaysia and is home to a famous mountain resort by the same name which can be reached by car from Kuala Lumpur in one hour. It is also accessible by the fastest and longest cable car (3.38km[1]) in Southeast Asia. In 2006, the resort had 18.4 million visitors.[1]

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It is sometimes known as the Las Vegas of Malaysia as it is the only legal land-based casino in Malaysia, run by the Resort World Berhad, a Genting Group Company. The resort also features many hotels owned by Genting subsidiaries including Genting Hotel, Highland Hotel, Resorts Hotel, Theme Park Hotel, and Awana Genting. First World Hotel has a total of 6,118 rooms, making it the current largest hotel in the world[2]. It surpassed MGM Grand Las Vegas, the former largest hotel in the world with 5,690 rooms. Other facilities in this resort include a theme park, golf course, shopping malls, sky diving simulator, concert hall and many more. It is also home to a 100-million-year-old forest.

There is a computerised system outside the First World Hotel which can automatically calculate the number of parking-bays left in four hotels; Genting Hotel, Highland Hotel, First World Hotel and Resorts Hotel.

Genting Highlands functions every year as the finish of a stage in the Tour de Langkawi cycling race. It is one of the longest (30 km) climbs featured in a cycling event. Below the hill is the Chinese temple called Chin Swee Temple for Chinese and the mosque called Masjid Yayasan Mohammad Noah for Muslims.

Genting casino was voted the World's Leading Casino Resort in Nov 2005 by the World Travel Awards.

Also, on April 1, 2007, Genting Highlands/Resort was the home of the Zee Cine Awards 2007.

Genting Highlands enjoys a cool climate, with temperatures no higher than 25°C and rarely falling below 14°C yearly.

  1. ^ a b Scheepstra, Wouter. "Gokken in regenwoud (Gambling in rainforest)", Spits, 2007-03-30, pp. 22. Retrieved on April 3, 2007. (in Dutch)
  2. ^ Genting's First World Recognized As World's Largest Hotel


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