Crescentrating Blog - News, Views and Opinion on Halal Muslim Travel Market

Dec 2025

No Pork, No Lard, No Trust: The Halal Claim That’s Costing You Customers

If your restaurant claims to be Halal but lacks independent verification, you are not building trust, you are creating uncertainty. And uncertainty is the one ingredient Muslim travelers won’t swallow. In my las...read more

Fazal Bahardeen | Founder & CEO, CrescentRating Read more on..Opinion

Dec 2025

Halal Logos Alone Won’t Save You: Embracing The TRUST Framework for the New Muslim Consumer

For over 15 years, I have seen many brands treat the Muslim consumer as just a checkbox. They add a halal logo, translate a slogan, and post a Ramadan greeting at the end of their global campaign calendar, then move on. But d...read more

Fazal Bahardeen | Founder & CEO, CrescentRating Read more on..Opinion

Jul 2025

Charting a More Inclusive Future: Embracing Accessible Travel for Neurodivergent Travelers and Active Seniors

A quiet but profound revolution is reshaping global travel. The Global Muslim Travel Index 2025 reveals how a focus on inclusivity is moving from the margins to the mainstream, creating a more dignified and accessible world f...read more

Fazal Bahardeen | Founder & CEO, CrescentRating Read more on..Opinion

Feb 2022

Hospitality Industry’s Road To Recovery Post Pandemic

With the world’s borders slowly opening back up and travel restrictions becoming more lenient, it’s time for tourism players and stakeholders to begin the recovery process from the onslaught of the pandemic. Travelers see...read more

Eric McConnor | Read more on..Opinion

Jan 2022

Singapore recognizes the long-term value and opportunities in Muslim segment | Keith Tan, Chief Executive of the Singapore Tourism Board

The Keynote Speech by Keith Tan, the Chief Executive of the Singapore Tourism Board, at the Halal In Travel Global Summit 2021. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Keith Tan, and I'm the Chief Executive of the Singapore ...read more

Staff Writer | Staff Writers Read more on..Opinion

Jan 2022

How Has The Pandemic Affected Air Travel?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, local and international air travel slowed down significantly. However, now that the borders are reopening and international travel is opening back up, airlines are responsible for adapting their...read more

Eric McConnor | Read more on..Opinion

Jan 2022

Capacity Building for Travel Destinations

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the tourism and travel industry. With the closure of borders, suspension of airlines, and various travel bans, the stakeholders in the business of hospitality have ha...read more

Eric McConnor | Read more on..Opinion

Dec 2021

The New Normal in Muslim Travel: Roadmap to Reopening Travel Destinations

Even as Covid-19 gradually eases from a pandemic to an endemic, questions still abound on how to navigate Muslim travel in the new normal. More than a year since the pandemic hit, countries worldwide are gearing up for t...read more

Nov 2021

Why Should Countries Have Mosque Tours?

Before the COVID-19 virus spread globally and halted international travels, Mosque tours proved valuable in bridging diverse communities. For the 2021 Halal in Travel Global Summit, CrescentRating hosted a conference highl...read more

Oct 2021

How Will the MICE Segment Adapt to the Pandemic Impact?

The impact of COVID-19 on the MICE industry is nothing short of catastrophic. But in its wake, the pandemic left valuable lessons that served as opportunities in reinventing and improving events in a post-pandemic era. A...read more

Aug 2021

Muslim Travel in a Post-Pandemic Era: Guide to Safe Reopening of ASEAN Tourism

The arrival and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines in Southeast Asia gave hope that the pandemic may come to an end sooner than what was earlier projected. But despite this, uncertainties continue to prevail on how to navigat...read more

Dec 2017

The Benefits of Reaching Out to the Muslim Travel Market

The Muslim population of the world is growing rapidly; therefore, several countries are seeing an increase in Muslim visitors. For a lot of Muslims, travelling is about learning new cultures and traditions; to sum it up, it�...read more

Walied Ali | Writer for CrescentRating Read more on..Opinion

May 2017

How Big Data is Validating the Ramadan Phenomenon

When you run a website/app, you watch your traffic like an investor keeping track of a stock portfolio. On the first day of this year’s Ramadan, we were doing exactly that. That is when we realised something unusual was hap...read more

Fazal Bahardeen | Founder & CEO, CrescentRating Read more on..Opinion

Jan 2017

Treating Muslim Tourists with Respect

Muslim-friendly tourism is currently growing in non-Muslim countries. It is an attempt to make the tourism experience enjoyable to Muslim travelers and allowing them to perform religious duties. The competition among non-Musl...read more

Dr. Mohamed Battour | Associate Professor at Faculty of Commerce, Tanta University, Egypt Read more on..Opinion

Dec 2016

Accommodation Preferences of Muslim Travelers - Muslim Business Traveler Insights

The Muslim Business Traveler Insights 2016 (MBTI) is a report presented by CrescentRating and Mastercard that focuses on the travel patterns and preferences of the average Muslim business traveler. The MBTI 2016 report goes t...read more