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The first-ever Halal Tourism Conference (HTC) is set to take place on September 22 and 23 in Granada, Spain. At the event, hospitality and travel professionals will examine how to better attract Muslim tourists, especially those of the high-income variety. Here is the lowdown on Halal tourism. What is Halal tourism? The phrase was coined to refer to the specific …

Sixty million yen (S$700,000) and six months: that’s what TFK Corporation recently spent on renovating a kitchen in Tokyo’s busy Narita airport and preparing it for halal certification. The prize for its pains? A chance to grab a bigger slice of the lucrative and burgeoning Muslim travel market. TFK, the Japanese unit of Singapore inflight food catering group Sats, had …

Night falls in Granada. Badiaa Lafdaili and Said Jellal leave their bags at the hotel and head out into the Andalusian city to explore. The Moroccan couple has already been in Bin al Mad’in, to give the nearby resort town of Benalmadena its orginal Arab name. “Andalusia is the birthplace of the great Arab poets and artists,” says Lafdaili, herself …

Islamic banking is gaining in popularity among non-Muslim customers. CNN's Jim Boulden reports.  

MOSCOW – After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has opened its doors to thousands of Muslim tourists, luring them with halal restaurants and Muslim-friendly resorts in a bid to cap into the growing industry of halal tourism. “Due to the fall in the number of visitors from the EU and the US, the Russian tourist industry has started …