Travel agencies, travel websites and multiple travel companies are increasingly trying to conquer Muslim travelers. A multitude of micro-companies and start-ups are flourishing and trying to make a place for themselves in order to win the jackpot. A rental company in Orlando, Florida, for example, offers halal vacation homes in ABU DHABI with swimming pools with terraces and rooms where you will find prayer rugs and Korans. A British company’s app lists fine dining restaurants that serve halal meat in London and Dubai. Another based in Boston offers travel guides that include 90 cities with local prayer times and a compass that points to the qibla.

• Previously, the halal tourism market was considered a limited source of revenue for Islamic travel with an influx of Muslim travelers to Mecca. However, the current market is growing to expand halal tourism to more and more cities around the world and to cater to the increasingly demanding Muslim travelers from all over the world.
• Muslim travelers from the Gulf countries are the ones who spend the most on halal travel with an average of 10,000 dollars per traveler spent per trip outside the Gulf. This population is a very demanding population and they can afford it even more.
  Even the United States is going halal, the Ritz-Carlton hotels in Dallas and New York serve halal meals on request and also offer private pool rentals and Muslim-friendly rooms.  There is a real boom in halal travel.
• These halal hotels seek at all costs to meet the expectations of Muslims who demand non-mixing, modesty, and a family setting within the hotel.  Also curtains are put up to respect the privacy of Muslim families who for example come to visit Disney Land or other family parks. It is well known that luxury hotels treat their guests like kings and queens. A lot of attention is paid to them, small welcome gifts, well ironed clothes, a really meticulous cleaning and for the Muslim population, respect of the intimacy…
• The number of Muslims is growing daily, so the Muslim market is a growing sector that can not fade away because Muslim travelers are constantly looking for renewal, in search of escape, new experiences, and new horizons.
• Turkey, a Muslim-friendly country par excellence, offers private beach rentals for women only and a structure has even been put in place to prevent people from flying on it. Discovery tours are conducted to discover the Islamic tourist heritage and that of previous civilizations. Turkey has hosted twenty different civilizations. The most important discovery tour is the Ottoman heritage in Istanbul with the visit of the famous blue mosque. There are many halal hotels in the vicinity.
• Malaysia, too, is on its way to conquering new travelers posing as a « Muslim-friendly Malaysia ».

Some halal booking sites can filter destination searches based on several criteria such as hotels that do not serve alcohol, halal hotels that offer halal meat permanently or on specific and customizable reservations.

Some Muslim travelers are really demanding on the totality of the « halality » of the trip and others are a little more permissive. To be able to choose the criteria which are essential to us or with hand on all the criteria to respect at best our ethics are a freedom which the agencies and sites of voyages propose to you today. Also this kind of freedom allows all Muslim travelers to be happy.

• It should be distinguished between two different concepts the halal friendly object (halal hotel, halal restaurant …) and the 100% halal vacations, the first is for example located for a short stay of business, medical, it is suitable for the Muslim traveler … and the second is designed to offer 100% halal vacations so for the Muslim’s vacations. Halal Gems is an application that lists gourmet halal meals in London and Dubai. In Dubai, the challenge is not to find halal food but to find the best gourmet options or organized halal dining.  Other apps are available that list prayer times in over 90 cities around the world with the direction of the qibla as a bonus. From Amsterdam, Athens to Bangkok via Washington…

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