Halal Travel

TO CATER to a growing demand for Halal travel, HalalTrip – the online platform for Muslim travelers and a sister brand of CrescentRating, the world’s leading authority on Halal-friendly travel – in partnership with Mastercard will launch a suite of innovative travel products for Muslim travelers.

According to the Mastercard-CrescentRating Global Muslim Travel Index (GMTI) 2016, an estimated 117 million Muslim visitor arrivals took place globally in 2015. This number is forecasted to grow to 168 million visitors by 2020, with a market value spend projected to exceed US$200 billion.

At the event, HalalTrip and Mastercard will launch the HalalTrip City Pass, which provides Muslim travelers with exclusive access to popular tourist locales, the HalalTrip Getaway service, which allows users to customize trips to Muslim-friendly getaways according to their needs, and HalalTrip Homes, which provides a guide to Halal-friendly accommodation options. As a strategic payment partner with HalalTrip, Mastercard cardholders will get to enjoy exclusive offers.

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London ranked as world's top travel destination

#LONDON has been rated as the world’s most popular travel destination, ahead of Bangkok, Paris, Dubai, and Istanbul.

The UK capital will attract this year 18.82 million international overnight visitors who will spend a total of £13.3 billion, according to the annual #MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index, which puts the city in top place for the fifth time in seven years. 

New York drops out of the top five with 12.27 million visitors.

The index ranks the 132 most visited cities around the world

The MasterCard report predicts a 6% rise in international overnight visitors to London in 2015 and a 2.3% increase in spending, compared to last year, underlining the city’s dominance as a global hub for international business and tourism and a gateway to the rest of the country.


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