Dear Colleagues,

I have a project to prepare a Global Halal Tourism Tourist Profile Barometer for a while now. The global halal tourism industry needs detailed information about the halal tourism demand. I think we must control the characteristics of halal tourism demand every year. A few years later we can prepare trends and make predictions about the evolution of halal tourism demand. Because of this reason, this project must be a barometer that produce information about the demand side of halal tourism market annualy.

In fact, two of my colleagues and I prepared a pilot study in Antalya / TURKEY destination. You can reach this report from my RG page.

To prepare a GHTTPB I have to overcome these two problems;

1. A data collection network (Volunteer co-researchers)

2. Financial funding (Sponsorships or project funding systems)

For data collection network: I need volunteer co-researchers from different countries which are popular for the Muslim travellers (especially from Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Russia, Spain, France, Thailand, Singapore, Italy, Greece). My colleagues and I have developed and tested a tourist profile questionnaire. We can use this instrument for this study too or we can improve it all together. The volunteer co-researchers should conduct this study in their country. We must collect 500 questionnaires from every countries. All co-researcher will be presented as co-writers of the GHTTPB.

For financial funding: We need a fund to conduct this research. I think maybe we can find sponsorhips from some companies that are care halal tourism. And maybe we can find a project funding system. I am not sure and I have not found a way out so far.

Is there anybody who wants to be a part of this project? Please contact with me.

Can you offer me a solution to find a financial funding?

Best regards.