Reflective Journal(Nurul Aina Alia Binti Wanara)(17DUP19F1034)

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ( 10% )
TOPIC 5
5.5.4 IDENTIFY TOURISM PRODUCTS AND PACKAGES FOR MUSLIM TRAVELLERS.

      The topic that i choose for a article is " Identify Tourism Products and Packages for Muslim Travelers". In this article has meaning about abstract, introduction of Muslim travelers, tourism and Islam tourism, Muslim tourism characteristics, details about Islamic tourism, concept, stories, goals, product, impacts, demand, events and the last one is damage traveling attributes.

     Muslim Travelers most overall created for Muslim cause have Islamic elements during the visit involving religious tourists ceremonies, events, festivals and to Islamic tourism products. Therefore, it is also set up for analyze the comparative nature of travel between Islamic tourism and mass tourism to provide a better understanding of Islamic tourism. Muslim travelers are looking foe destinations that comprise the majority Muslim community by ( Henderson, 2010 ) that can offer a Halal-friendly tourism environment. Hence, the emergence of religious tourism is efforts to attract more tourists to increase acceptance from around the world.

     The positive impact for Muslim Travelers is especially to Muslims because not all travel agencies can guarantee the physical and mental health of Muslims. For example, in terms of foods and time for Muslims to perform compulsory prayers. When in other travel agency, they do not make time for Muslims to pray on their journey. So Muslims cannot perform their prayers. On the food side there is no guarantee that the food provided is halal or non-halal so it is difficult for them to enjoy the food provided throughout their journey and to participate in travel activities. With the Muslim Travelers, for Muslims they do not worry anymore about it cause Muslims Travelers have all the necessary strategic planning and needs. The second positive impact is recommended that Muslim hospitality and services is not only developed for Muslim tourists but also looking for non-Muslim which they can be viewed as a potential market. Therefore, the research aims to identify any analyze the Islamic attributes of the Muslim tourism package while traveling to some destination. At the same time, this study will allow an in-depth understanding of Muslim tourism's pattern that enhance the knowledge of tourism supplier to define the possible adaptations in order to serve a better hospitality for Muslim tour packages. Next, is since tourism industry has been identified as a major contribution to social and economic growth in Malaysia.

     The negative impact is the marketing of halal tourism is also not an easy task for the tourism industry because of the variance between the demands of non-Muslim tourists and Muslim tourists. In the order way round, consuming halal products and services buy non-Muslim tourists in the tourism industry cold reduce Islamophobia but it is challenging to persuade non-Muslim to do so Fanatic Christians and Muslims. They are fanatic groups from both Christianity and Muslim that protested  Halal tourism. As started  above fanatic Christian considered Ethiopia as the "Christian Island" and they will never recognizes Halal Product in the country.

     In my suggestion, Muslim travelers must have ways to upgrade and attract more tourists especially non-Muslims to better interest them in Islam. It also need to make many visits to interesting places related to Islam and attract non-Muslims about places that can open their minds such as mosques. Islamic travels should not be too focused just to Muslims, it should also pay attention to non-Muslims. Then it can attract many foreign tourists to come to Malaysia.