Travel & Hospitality

On several of its overseas routes, ANA Holdings Inc is beginning to offer an unconventional type of snack – rice crackers that happen to be accredited halal, an Arabic term meaning “permissible”. These kinds of rice crackers can become a ...

Jakarta Post Indonesia: The capital Jakarta will host the first International Forum on Muslim tourism among the members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) next month on June 1-2 to develop sharia Islamic tourism among 57 OIC members. The ...

According to the ‘2013 state of the Global Islamic Economy’ by Thomson Reuters and Dinar Standard, the Muslim travel sector is worth an estimated 137 billion US dollars. Clearly a want and need is present for Islamic compliant travel and ...

By Tomohiro Osaki, JT For the most devout followers of Islam, traveling to Japan has often spelled trouble. Some may recall entering clothing shops in a desperate search for fitting rooms where they could perform one of their five daily ...

By Lee Hsin-Yin Taipei, March 28 (CNA) Twenty-one restaurants and hotels in Taiwan were given Halal certification on Friday, bringing the total number of facilities of this kind to 50, as part of the country’s effort to attract more Muslim ...