Crescentrating Blog - News, Views and Opinion on Halal Muslim Travel Market

Dec 2021

Gen X and Millennials key drivers in the IDR 1000 Trillion Halal dining market in Indonesia

Jakarta, 15 December 2021 – Indonesian Muslims’ expenditure on dining and delivery is estimated to be IDR 1,000 Trillion, according to the Mastercard-CrescentRating Halal Food Lifestyle Indonesia Report 2021, developed in...read more

Nov 2021

Crescentrating Wins Responsible Tourism's Prestigious Award At WTM London

SINGAPORE, 2 November 2021 – CrescentRating has been named one of the World Responsible Tourism award winners under the "Increasing Diversity in Tourism" category at the WTM London. World Responsible Tourism Awards, fi...read more

Mar 2021

Halal Food Lifestyle Report, Singapore 2021: Local Muslims spend an estimated SGD 700 million in Halal food

Singapore Muslims spend an estimated SGD 700 million in Halal dining and delivery, according to the latest report released by Mastercard and CrescentRating. Despite the dampening of the Singapore Halal food industry growth du...read more

Oct 2020

ITB Asia kicks off first virtual event: Reinventing Travel in the New Normal

ITB Asia partners with CrescentRating for the 5th year. ITB Asia, Asia’s Leading Travel Trade Show, opened its virtual doors for the first-ever virtual event. As one of the industry’s firsts, the three-day event is bei...read more

Feb 2020

Uzbekistan Ziyarah Tourism Week 2020: Uzbekistan Accelerates Programs to Capitalize On The Growing Muslim Travel Market

Ziyarah Tourism Week will be held from the 12th to the 16th March Tashkent, 25th February 2020 – According to the Mastercard - CrescentRating Global Muslim Travel Index 2019 (GMTI 2019), the Muslim travel segment is one ...read more

Oct 2019

Over a quarter of Muslim Women Journeys Are Solo Travels

Singapore, 17 October 2019 – Twenty-eight percent of Muslim women journeys last year were solo travels, indicative of a growing younger demographic willing to experience the world, according to the latest report released ...read more

Apr 2019

Mastercard-CrescentRating Global Muslim Travel Index (GMTI) 2019: Indonesia and Malaysia Take the Top Positions in the Fast Growing Muslim Travel Market

Indonesia has joined Malaysia to share the top spot on the Mastercard-CrescentRating Global Muslim Travel Index (GMTI) 2019. Singapore retained its premier position as the top Muslim-friendly non-OIC destination for Musl...read more

Apr 2019

IMTI (Indonesia Muslim Travel Index) 2019 Launch: Global Standardization of Indonesia as a Halal Tourism Destination 2019

Jakarta, 8 April 2019 -- Halal travel is a global trend that is promising now and in the future. From 2000 to 2020, the Global Muslim Travel Index (GMTI) predicts that the global Muslim travel market will have grown by 27% p...read more

Jan 2019

The Mastercard-CrescentRating Halal Travel Frontier 2019 Report Unveils the Top Trends to Watch in the Muslim Travel Market

Singapore, 29 January 2019 - The Mastercard-CrescentRating Halal Travel Frontier 2019 Report (HTF2019) has identified 17 trends that will shape the next phase of development in the fast growing Halal travel sector. The r...read more

Dec 2018

Inaugural Indonesia Muslim Travel Index Reveals Lombok, Aceh, and Jakarta as New Key Destinations for Halal Tourism

Indonesia launches travel index to position itself as the leader in the US$220 Billion Muslim Travel Market and achieve target of five million Muslim Tourists in 2019. The Mastercard-CrescentRating Indonesia Muslim Trave...read more

Oct 2018

Millennial and Gen Z Muslim Travelers driving a US$180 Billion Online Travel Market

Singapore, 18 October 2018 –The increasing reliance on the internet, social media and smartphones for place discovery and travel bookings by Muslim Millennials and GenerationZ is driving a US$180 Billion online market. ...read more

Jan 2018

Digital Muslim Travel Space Development

A significant increase in Halal digital economy initiatives into the Muslim travel market has resulted in massive changes in the online world, with Muslim millennial travelers as a primary driving force. The latest report fro...read more

Shamilka Rasheed | Writer for CrescentRating Read more on..Press Releases

Jan 2018

Rise of Muslim Female Travelers

The latest report from CrescentRating, the Halal Travel Frontier 2018 highlights the travel trends that will be observed in the Halal travel industry for this current year. One of the top trends includes the continued rise of...read more

Shamilka Rasheed | Writer for CrescentRating Read more on..Press Releases

Jan 2018

Muslim Millennials, Artificial Intelligence (AI), New Training Opportunities to Shape Halal Travel in 2018

For almost a decade, CrescentRating has analysed the Halal travel market and benchmarked destinations with the annual Mastercard-Crescentrating Global Muslim Travel Index (GMTI) reports. As ever, the industry has been rapidly...read more

Nurhafihz Noor | Head of Research and Training Read more on..Press Releases

Jun 2017

Bintan Resorts Ties Up With CrescentRating to Lure Muslim Travellers

Bintan Resorts rolls out a series of initiatives in collaboration with CrescentRating and Halaltrip, to increase its appeal to Muslim travellers across the world with a focus on the neighbouring ASEAN region, China and the Mi...read more