5 Charts Showing Challenges Faced by Muslim Travelers Around the World
Photo Credit: A group of Muslim travelers queueing for food in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Flickr / Peter Rowley
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These data points outlining massive amounts of visitor arrivals and spending should be enough to convince travel brands that the time has come to show these travelers that they matter.
More than 117 million international travelers and counting make up the global Muslim travel market but conditions have worsened for some key aspects of travel for Muslims during the past year.
According to MasterCard and CrescentRating's 2016 Global Muslim Travel Index the safety of traveling Muslims is less secure this year than it was a year ago. Index values for "general safety of Muslim travelers" decreased by more than five index points for both Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries, or those with predominant Muslim populations, and non-OIC countries. Both companies recently examined 130 countries for the index to access how destinations are catering to the Muslim travel market and assigned an index value of 0 to 100 to 11 categories part of the analysis.
The accommodation options and destination marketing towards Muslim travelers categories also received lower index values this year compared to 2015 for both sets of countries an
