ESCAPE – Making Tourism Sustainable by Maintaining High Standards

By Alexander Fernandez

September 2020 FEATURE
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ESCAPE is a Guiness World Record Holder for the longest tube water slide, measuring at 1,111m! Photo: ESCAPE.
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TUCKED DEEP IN Teluk Bahang is the kampung-concept theme park ESCAPE, the brainchild of chief ESCAPE officer Sim Choo Kheng. Inspired by his childhood adventures around his village, the park features dare-devil rides and games fitted into the natural landscape. ESCAPE comprises three sections: Adventureplay, Waterplay and Gravityplay, and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest water slide at 1,111m!1In 2009 his Dubai-based company Sim Leisure won the open tender for the construction of an eco-rural concept theme park...

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Alexander Fernandez

is a budding plant enthusiast, feline fanatic, Netflix junkie and gaming buff. He hopes to one day travel to Japan.

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