VISIONARY - TAN SRI LIM GOH TONG 

According to the Cambridge dictionary visionary is a ​person who has the ​ability to ​imagine how a ​country, ​society, ​industry, will ​develop in the ​future and to ​plan in a ​suitable way. This may be help some entrepreneurs to improve their job become better than what they have planned. Let’s show a few of example below.

For example, Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong is the good example of this visionary characteristic. He was the founder of the Genting Group, and he has did some frightful decision when he was having dinner and enjoying the cool atmosphere at the Cameron Highlands in 1964 and he gets an idea.He thinks that people will like to travel or enjoy the place which is at the hilltop away from the busy city town. This idea led him to become the first person to build a resort on the hilltop. As nobody believe that the project will success, but Mr Lim held on firmly onto his idea and continue his project.He even sold his plantation to raise RM2.5billion for his project.Tan Sri Lim was then working on a hydro-electric power project at the popular hill resort,as many people argue to get the protection from the hot temperature, he tried to achieve his mission when he foresaw a prosperous Malaysia of the future desiring a cool mountain holiday resort within the reach of all Malaysians.

In 1969, Mr Tan Sri Lim was granted the first gaming license in Malaysia bythe YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia’s first Prime Minister.This gaming licence was suggested to help his project develop of this remote area.Finally in 1971,the first hotel was completed and opened.Since then,more developments were lining up and soon it expended into a resort with five hotels, two apartments at the hilltop and Awana Genting Highlands Golf and Country Resort.

Another example is Tan Sri Anthony Francis(Tony Fernandes) he is a CEO or founder of Air Asia airline.He is also a man who has characteristic of visionary.When he was six years old, he announced that he would start an airline, and his father, a doctor, quipped, "If you put past the Hilton hotel doorman, I'll be happy." Well, he did make Hilton past gatekeepers, and then did not stop there. He said that marketing is in his blood as his mother ran a successful direct sales Tupperware business in Malaysia. He tried to apply for a low-cost subsidiary Air Malaysia bleeding from the Malaysian government. . In 2001, AirAsia launched. Airlines turn into profit and 2 years.

Malaysian tourists are actually waiting for someone exactly like Tony Fernandes to provide flight experience for them. When Tony started his airline, millions of fellow travelers took his Malaysia Airlines enthusiastically. By launching a low-cost airline in Malaysia, Tony only set a fuse to air travel in his homeland, but pent-up demand in Asia. Soon, the outbreak of the Asian air travel market -millions spectacular across the world's most populous continent found that they also have the ability to fly. Today, Asia is the world's fastest growing air travel market in the region by 2025 is expected to deal with passenger airline at least three times, once in 2005 because they amount today, AirAsia's flag flies high in Asia, its regional hub in Thailand and Indonesia. Fernandes is keen in other countries in the region, such as the Philippines and Vietnam to open an additional hub, has a positive strategy to capture the market, such as Japan, China, Korea, India and Australia countries.