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Here’s a rough estimate of how many vehicles (excluding motorcycles) may have travelled up to Genting Highlands during 2024, based on available visitation and traffic assumptions:
Steps & assumptions
1. The resort at Genting Highlands reportedly attracts 20-22 million visitors per annum.
2. Let’s assume that on average, each vehicle (excluding motorcycles) carries about 2.5 persons (this is an assumption – actual number may vary depending on families/tour groups)
3. Assume that of all visitor trips, say 80% arrive by vehicle (car, taxi, bus) and the rest by other means (e.g., cable car, bus, public transport).
4. Then:
Total visitor trips ~ say 20 million.
80% via vehicle → 16 million people arriving in vehicles.
If each vehicle carries 2.5 people → about 16 m ÷ 2.5 = 6.4 million vehicle entries for the year.
5. Given possibility of return trips / reuse of vehicles, we’ll treat “entries up the hill” as our count.
6. To account for margin of error (people per vehicle could be 2-4, vehicle share 70-90%) we might give a range.
Estimated range
Taking the above into account:
average 2 people/vehicle → 20m × 90% = 18m people by vehicle → ÷ 2 = ~ 9.0 million vehicles
So a reasonable mid-estimate: ~9 million vehicles travelled up Genting Highlands in 2024 (excluding motorcycles)
So, assume the toll fee is RM5 per vehicle (for 2 ways) :
9mil x RM5 = RM45 mil per annum to Genting Berhad coffers
However, factor in the significant reduction in footfalls and trips arising from the implementation of toll charges & its impact on non gaming revenue (F&B, theme parks, etc.). If zero toll fees strategy works well, why change it merely to gain extra revenue. It is not significant in relation to total gaming revenue and could well affect their gaming revenue too. RWG continues to be highly profitable too.