Resort World Genting Mobile App.

Traveling has never been the happiest thing for me. I really hate to leave my house and travel out. The worry of not bringing enough of something(i.e undies, namecards, money or whatever.), the worry that my hotel booking got screwed up or even getting into a plane crash or whatever sort.

That's pretty much me.

On top of that, traveling was never a practice in the family. Maybe because the dad never ever bring us overseas due to money or maybe he just hates it too. The very 1st place the family went (without the brother - I think he was in the army. The family had never travel out together before.) was Genting Highlands after my PSLE. To be frank, I wasn't all that into it. All the packing and going to somewhere unknown for the 1st time really freaks me out.

Over the years if it ain't because of work or company trip, it's very usual of me to travel and who is the one that suffers? The wife, cause she is one those wanderlust girls.

Despite how I hated traveling, I actually went out for a 2D1N trip with Kevin from CAKE. I was invited to a Resort World Genting event and he was my "official" photographer. How cool?

The trip up to Genting was not at all troublesome this time round cause it was all taken care by the awesome team at RWGenting. I have nothing to worry at all. And these people at Resort World Genting sure knows how to make you feel like a VIP.

This is the cutie @JQLeeJQ who picked us up. koff koff. 

And THIS is OPRAH! Not Winfrey but Oprah from Genting. 

 I guess it's pretty common when people pick their guest up at the airport or bus bay but it's really something special for me! Ok fine, maybe it's just a odd ball. And what is the reason I am there this time round? 

We were there to celebrate the awesome milestone of Resort World Genting Mobile App! Within days of launching, they were the No .1 Travel app in Malaysia and Singapore for IOS, and Top 10 Travel App in Malaysia for Android, respectively.  When Windows 8 App was launched in December, RWG was one of its partners. As of today, RWG App has over 100,000 downloads in less than a year. An app for a resort/hotel. How cool is that? 

Trying the App on a Window 8 Tablet. 

The app is actually really cool and easy to use. It not only shows you what is happening at the resort but you can actually use it to book a room! So for those of you who likes to try your like at RWG because you need to pay $100 just to enter the casino at RWS, download the app today! And during the event, 3 VIP was on stage to explain to us why they actually had this app and more. They were Dato’ Kevin Sim, Executive Vice President of Genting Malaysia Berhad, Thomas Ng, Senior Vice President of E-services and also Chow Wei Heng, Vice President of Marketing. 

Happy with their result!

Photos by Kevin from mycake.sg

Being a Singaporean. I am totally unfamiliar with their rankings and all and meeting a Dato sure sounds like a big deal to me. To my surprise Dato Kevin Sim doesn't at all give me a feeling of intimidation. He actually makes me feel kinda comfortable and very personal. He is a really humorous guy too! 

Dato Kevin sharing with us his story about his Grand Mother using iPad.

I really very impressed with RWG for being so much more ahead of the rest of the companies in the industry. Not only do they have an app, they also have very active facebook page, twitter and other social media platform such as Weibo and even Ren Ren. Being in the industry for so many years, clients that are more traditional are always very resistant to social media but RWG has shown me otherwise. They have been around for so many years but yet they are ready to make changes to the business and dare to take the step ahead and make a difference. Maybe that is also why they are around and will be around for many more decades and even centuries. (A matter of survival, the earth or them. :x) 

‘Unlike yesteryears, reaching out to customers has changed tremendously.  Our top booking avenue is the online booking via the website and it is also where we see ourselves highest in exposure in-terms of promoting our products.  Customers talk to us via our Facebook site, Twitter and blogs and share with us their opinion about us.  We also have online travel agents as our business partners and group buying sites such as MyDeal and Groupon.  However, with the current new trend, App, it gives us another platform to promote our products.’ - Chow Wei Heng, Vice President of Marketing

 I am truly impressed by how much they understand the business of social media and the need of being ahead. I've seen too many businesses resisting to be part of the 'Social World". 

And with this app, booking of rooms just gets easier! Every hotel, restaurant should have such an app! 

Not only did they "bus" (since i can't say they flew us up.) up all the way to KL and Genting, they also buy us awesome dinner at RWGenting's Coffee Terrace! 

The very first thing Kevin and I attacked was the fresh oysters and salmon sashimi! And Oprah went " you Singaporeans really like these hor?" Damn! Are we that typical? I guess that is a yes! :x 

No, we did not break any walls of the hotel room that night. 

Ok, I did have some greens too. 

SASHIMIIII~~~~ 

And of course the night doesn't end here for us. Boys being boys, we spent the night at the sports bar drinking some beer and caught some repeat telecast soccer games. And what else did we do? We kinda explored the place... although we can't see much, like literally. 

It's totally NOT 26 degree. It was more like 10-12 degree according to the hotel wall thermometer. 

And this is me at Silent Hill. No, should be "diam diam" hill since it's in MY. :p 

The trip was really eventful I must say. Not only did I had a great time with my bro, had some great food but I was impressed by the company's social media effort. It was an eye opener for sure. Thanks a lot to the Resort World Genting team for the invite and the hospitality! 

P.S: If you like the T-shirt I wore during the event, it's actually from my sponsor www.bombastique.com.sg 

Keep Clam okay? 

Mr.Smith, now go download the app and try!