Halal travel: For the pious and obedient.  Fazal Bahardeen, founder-CEO of Crescentrating, talks about the Halal travel market on Voyages World.

For Muslim travelers "Halal-friendly travel" means that they can explore the world with peace of mind by choosing those travel services and destinations that cater to their basic unique needs

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"From providing prayer rooms at shopping centers to making hotel pools available only for women at certain times, more tourism operators are striving to meet the growing demand for services that are halal, or permissible under Islam"

Al Jazeera's report on the growing Muslim Tourist Market and how the industry is catering to them. Read the full report here

Some of the Media coverage of Crescentrating's Air Travel Prayer Time Calculator Launch

Media coverage of Crescentrating's Top 10 Halal Friendly Holiday Destinations for 2012 and the Top 10 Halal Friendly Shopping Destinations for 2012:

Article On LondonMuslim's Blog!

As (his) regular readers will know LM has a particular interest in promoting Halal travel amongst Muslims and also to ensure that when we do go on a holiday or business trip the opportunity to do so in a Halal way is available.

TODAY, we have fashion hotels, underwater hotels, ice hotels, seven star hotels, etc., and, for the devout, syariah-compliant hotels! In the last 15 years, I've travelled to more 35 countries and stayed in over 100 hotels, and most of today's syariah-Shariah compliant (SC) hotel's neither provide a religious experience nor value for money.

Restoran halal di Hotel Marina Mandarin

by Rosebi Mohd Sah (Cyberita Online)

MASYARAKAT Islam di Singapura kini mempunyai satu lagi pilihan untuk menikmati makanan halal dalam sekitaran hotel lima bintang.

Ini kerana Hotel Marina Mandarin, hotel di tengah-tengah kawasan Marina Bay, kini menyediakan hidangan 100 peratus halal di restorannya, AquaMarine.

DhakaLive loves an innovative idea and during the Muslim month of abstinence, we can't help but praise the idea of halal holidays. Islamic hotel branding, family travel and tourism is a growing new phenomenon. With 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and the numbers growing, it makes sense to cater to their ideas for a great holiday.

Halal turizam je novi oblik turističke ponude koji postaje sve popularniji. Podrazumijeva da turistima muslimanima budu zadovoljene dvije potrebe: omogućavanje uslova za obavljanje vjerskih obreda i halal hrana.

Halaal Tourism Becoming a Lucrative Industry

By Shezna Shums/ www.ft.lk

Halaal tourism is now becoming increasingly popular and is considered a lucrative market as research shows that this segment has a huge spending power.

The Halaal tourist at least spends twice the average of the normal traveller. This was one of the pointers highlighted at a presentation on Halaal Friendly Tourism organised by Crescentrating & Utopia Vacations last Tuesday (12).

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