THE international tourism industry is gradually awakening to an emerging travel market that is twice the size of China’s, and bigger than that of the US – affluent Muslim holidaymakers with money to spend.
At the world’s largest travel trade show, which wrapped up in Germany last month, attendees at ITB Berlin heard that Muslim holidaymakers spend more than US$126bil (RM389bil) annually on tourism – and that the numbers are rising.
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