Muslim Friendly Tourism:
Developing and Marketing MFT Products and Services
In the OIC Member Countries
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Also, more than 700 hotels in Turkey already accepted to provide at least one or more MFT
product and services by registering to the MFT booking website .
The products and services below are partly or fully provided in Turkey’s Muslim-friendly
hotels. These MFT products are listed according to research gathered from Hotel websites,
interviews with customers about their experience and the information given by interviewed
hotel managers.
Hotels services:
 Restaurants for families only
 Non-alcohol facility
 Turkish bath and sauna for women only
 Beach and Pool for women only
 Women only elevators and corridors to pools etc.
 Women only pool with sea water and beach sands
 Women only masjid at women only pools and beaches
 Pool and sauna for women only in defined hours
 Separate personnel of massage, spa, and barber for man and women
 Bidet/ toilet shower
 Non disco and bar facility
 Halal certified kitchen (Bera Hotel was the first hotel that obtained the “Halal kitchen
certificate” from TSE in 2014. However the certificate was not renewed in 2015, but
Bera management says all food served in the hotel is Halal)
 Halal Food
 Qibla direction in the room away from the toilet
 Quran and prayer rug in the room
 Masjid in the hotel
 Loud music noise isolation for masjids
 Mosque or masjid near the hotel
 Halal food facility near the hotel
 No adult channels in the room
 Modestly dressed workers
 Lectures of famous Muslim scholars
 Famous religious singers
 Muslim-Friendly Airlines
Turkish Airlines (THY) is a leading service provider for Halal food with a Muslim Meal option
on its menu. The second biggest Airline, Pegasus, serves different menu options such as
vegetarian, diabetic, low fat, and Kosher menus. But it has not yet included a Muslim meal
option. 297 Prayer before take-off is not a service in Turkey’s airline industry. But, if the flight
is a charter flight to Hajj or Umrah, they allow group Imams or religious leaders to make
supplication, and recite Quran from the airplane’s microphone.
The only airline that has a prayer area in the airplane is Saudi Arabian Airlines in their charter
flights from Turkey to Hajj and Umrah and Malaysian Airlines on their long haul flights.
29 rder Page. Pegasus Airlines, 1 May 2016. Web.