Malaysia welcomed 4.5 million Muslim tourists last year, generating 14.7 billion RM (over 3.5 billion USD) in revenue, Director-General of the Islamic Tourist Centre (ITC), Nirzan Nordin said on September 25.
Domestic and foreign scholars on July 5 exchanged experience in developing Halal ecosystems in countries at an international workshop held by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VAAS) in Hanoi.
Aside from resuming tourism promotion in traditional markets, the northern province of Quang Ninh is also exploring new markets, including Muslim ones, to boost the recovery of international visitors.
Quang Ninh welcomed 12.06 million tourist arrivals in the first eight months of 2023, rising 1.47-fold from a year earlier, said the People’s Committee of the northern province.
The northern province of Quang Ninh has welcomed 28 Indian visitors according to the tradition of Islamism, proving its professionalism in organising Halal tourism activities.
Malaysia is targeting 3.2 million Muslim tourist arrivals in 2023 against the 2.1 million last year, said the country’s Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Khairul Firdaus Akbar Khan.
Muslim tourists are a potential segment of the global tourism where in 2017, a total of 131 Muslim tourist arrivals were recorded globally, or up from 121 million in 2016, Antara News reported.
