Sharia-Compliant Hotels

Abstract

where she has worked since 1997, specialising in tourism and hospitality studies. Before this, she lectured in travel and tourism in the United Kingdom after periods of employment in the public and private tourism sectors there. Current research interests include tourism crisis management and tourism development in the Middle East and Asia Pacifi c regions.

The Meaning of Muslim-Friendly Destination: Perspective of Malaysian and Korean Scholars

“…The South East Asia countries such as Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia promotes themselves as Muslimfriendly by concerning about Islamic tourism and offering halal tourism products to reach the Muslim tourists' need [5]. Moreover, the increasing number of Muslim tourist from the Middle East, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India directed many countries such as New Zealand to attract Muslim tourists by presenting their halal industry growing, Muslim friendly groceries, and halal restaurants [6].…”

The Practice of Shariah-Compliant Hotel in Malaysia

“…Many international chain hotels operating in the Middle East, such as the Landmark Hotel Group and The Serai Group, had plans to open SCH as early as 2006; however, the progress is delayed because many parts of the world were affected by economic downturn in 2008 [8]. However, according to many researchers the main factor that has an impact on SCH development is the absence of SCH standard and requirements [19]- [21], [23], [25]. As argued by Henderson (2010), Rosenberg and Choufany (2009), and Birchall (2009), without the established standard of SCH, the practice of SCH appears different from one hotel to another.…”

“…However, according to many researchers the main factor that has an impact on SCH development is the absence of SCH standard and requirements [19]- [21], [23], [25]. As argued by Henderson (2010), Rosenberg and Choufany (2009), and Birchall (2009), without the established standard of SCH, the practice of SCH appears different from one hotel to another. For example, two Dubai-based Shariah-compliant hotels practice different SCH and provide different levels of Islamic services.…”

“…In the Middle East, many hotels offer basic Islamic services, and the trend tends to shift to fuller services. In addition, the target market is extended to non-Muslims by striking on the selling proposition of family and health-oriented concept [23]. However, there is lack of empirical research and article written on the concept of SCH that acknowledges the underdeveloped concept of SCH [19], [22], [28].…”

Determination of Customer Satisfaction in Conservative Concept Hotels by Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis

“…In addition, when tourism activities are being carried out, it has to be determined that which religious service will be offered and that the service providers should have the necessary knowledge about that particular religion. Henderson (2010) defines Islamic tourism as a type of tourism in which all of the tourist products and services created for conservative people are designed totally for the purposes of conservative people.…”