Experts stress need to focus on halal tourism market in S-E Asia

Jakarta

AS MORE countries in South-east Asia and beyond continue to gradually reopen their borders as part of the move to live with Covid-19, experts have stressed the need to focus on the halal tourism market to give the region's ailing travel and hospitality sector a much-needed boost.

Halal tourism - which was experiencing a huge boom before the coronavirus struck the world in early 2020 - is a travel subcategory that caters to Muslim tourists seeking destinations that meet their various needs, be it in terms of diet, dress or rituals.