Dry hotels are losing 30% on the bottom line |Hotelier Middle East by Hotelier Middle East Staff, Thursday, September 16 2010

According to this report, Hotels loose 30% on their profits margins, when they chose not to serve Alcohol in the Hotel. Some Hotel managers interviewed in the report say that this can never be made up with any other activities in the hotel (Assume what is meant here as 30% drop is the drop in the profit margins as a percentage)

It will be good to do some more research on the subject. There are many restaurants especially in Asia which have gone "Halal" and then increased their revenue. They continue to expand their Halal outlets !

As far as Crescentrating for Hotels; being an alcohol free Hotel is one of the minimum requirements for the Hotel to be granted a Crescentrating of 6 or 7.

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Hotels choose halal to woo Muslim tourists | Business Daily (Africa) by WANGUI MAINA, Thursday, September 16 2010

According to this report, countries like Kenya may be looking at getting some properties as Halal Friendly.

According to a Travel agent there, Mr Mohammed Jamaa of Sagal Travel, there is demand for this kind of travel and it is gaining popularity.

Somehowe most of these articles seems to focus on "seperate areas for men and women".  In reality, in our rating this is only looked at when we look at granting a Crescentrating of 7 to a Hotel.

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What's the appeal of a halal holiday? on myTelegraph By Annabel Kantaria September 15th, 2010.

Interesting article on "Halal Holidays".  However, according to the author, there still seems to be some confusion among some people, that somehow providing these (mostly family friendly !) services and facilities is going to make the destinations "segregate Muslims from non-Muslims on holiday."

Read the full article by myTelegraph here

Similar article on BBC sometime ago prompted us to write a little bit more of what we believe "Halal Friendly Travel" is all about and how it helps bringing people.

You can read that article here.

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Planet Islamic

by Joanne Bladd and Claire Ferris-Lay  Thursday, 09 September 2010

"My generation, we were worried to show our religion openly. My son and my daughters, it doesn't even cross their minds. They want halal products and they are absolutely happy to ask for them. This generation is not afraid," says Fazal Bahardeen, CEO of Crescent Rating, which ranks hotels worldwide by their ‘halal-friendliness'.

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