This chapter defines Islamic tourism and presents an overview of the book's chapters.

This book focuses on Islamic tourism, including halal tourism and religious tourism and pilgrimage. It covers the theoretical framework and development of Islamic tourism, as well as the management and marketing of destinations. Global case studies are presented, highlighting the challenges and...

This chapter aims to provide insights into the consumer behaviour of Muslim tourists and their significance as a potential target segment within the context of Halal tourism. More specifically, the chapter intends to discuss the role of religious commitment and culture in impacting Muslim tourist...

Drawing upon recent themes within tourism management, this chapter explores interesting and challenging approaches to the management of Islamic tourism destinations. It takes a closer look at some of the intricacies of Islamic tourism and its management but the priority here is to approach...

The aim of this chapter is to evaluate the marketing approaches and to identify any marketing problems of Islamic destinations. Using published literature, case studies and on-line sources, the chapter examines why tourism development has not progressed in most parts of the Islamic world, as well...

This chapter aims to discusses the impact of the Hajj experience on Islamic religious commitment in Indonesia. To do so the chapter adopts the investment model of commitment (IMC) used in the psychology literature to provide a theoretical framework for studying Hajj experiences. IMC claims that...

This chapter discusses the use of social media and its impact on consumer behaviour in the context of Islamic/Muslim-friendly tourism. The chapter begins by discussing the development of social media and the application of Web 2.0 technology, and then provides a definition of social media and some...

The aim of this chapter is to explain and expand the understanding of Islamic customer relationship marketing (ICRM) and its factors for the purpose of religious tourism business. An extensive literature review of various business disciplines, including marketing, relationship marketing, customer...

The purpose of this chapter is to elaborate on how quality attributes for tourism activities are linked with tourist loyalty for a religious destination. The chapter reports findings of a research study that assessed Umrah quality attributes as presented in four dimensions (Islamic life and belief, ...

This chapter attempts to explore the Sufi heritage and its effect in promoting Islamic religious tourism. It presents the similarities between religious and Sufi tourism. Moreover, the chapter discusses how religious tourism embodies the essence of Sufism in its search for love, peace and...