halal tourism

Halal tourism, which is often known as Islamic tourism or Muslim-friendly tourism, is a new concept in the tourism industry that opens new and exciting opportunities to increase economic growth.

This study describes the prospects of halal tourism. Consequently, this research is descriptive. On the other hand, qualitative information has been analyzed to conduct this research. Therefore, it is a descriptive qualitative research.

Based on the stimulus-response model or "black box" of consumer decision-making, potential Muslim tourists in the halal industry can be considered as thinkers and problem solvers who consider a wide range of external and internal factors when making decisions. They respond to buy or not buy an offer. While it is possible that a Muslim tourist may behave emotionally or irrationally, the proposed stimulus-response model assumes that regardless of what happens inside the black box, the Muslim tourist's reaction is the result of a decision process. Taking is conscious and logical.

Muslims can have different levels of religious commitment and cultural orientations. Shopping experience has a direct and positive relationship between perceived value and the intention to patronize stores selling products with halal labels. On the other hand, both perceived usefulness and religious commitment will have a direct and positive effect on the intention to purchase halal-labeled products and the intention to support stores selling halal-labeled products.

 Halal tourism is a type of tourism that expands according to the religious standards of Muslims. But this policy regarding halal tourism in our country, Iran, has not been given as much attention as it should, and this gap is tangible in the planning on halal tourism. The research aims to investigate the implementation model of halal tourism policies in Iran to attract Muslim tourists to the extent of their capacities.

 The method (qualitative and quantitative) has been used among the community of experts who are aware of the halal tourism policy based on a sample size of 30 people. Since the real experiences of people were examined in this research, the phenomenological (inductive) method was used in the qualitative part. After interviewing the experts in this field and using Claysey's interview method, the main and secondary themes regarding tourism policies were also counted. Also, in the quantitative section, the main and secondary themes were reviewed in the form of a questionnaire by 133 professors and faculty members in this field.

 Halal tourism in Iran is based on the permissibility of the policy of halal tourism in Iran, the effect of the nature of the policy, the effect of the factors related to the implementers, the obstacles to the implementation of the requirements, the method of implementation, the role and relationship of the society with the issue of model design, implementation and the role of the factors of compilation and taking from Halal tourism has been approved in Iran.

In terms of cultural, historical, and social richness and the human need for travel, recreation, and in accordance with Islamic standards, the patterns and policies of halal tourism in Iran will be useful.

Health tourism is one of the branches of tourism that has been considered by many tourism activists in recent years. This type of tourism, which has high profitability and economic value, has been exploited in each country in proportion to its scientific potential and diversity of medical services. Iran, as one of the advanced countries in the field of modern medical science and research, is one of the oldest countries in the history of medicine and even has a unique medical school in ancient medicine.

In the present article, using descriptive and library methods, the indicators of halal health tourism in different aspects of medical science have been explained.

Analysis of different aspects of halal tourism and review of various medical services from clinical services to the production of medicine and massage therapy, etc., can provide a whole package of medical services in the form of halal health tourism and attract many tourists to the country.

Health tourism in the world began with physical health and then developed into the human mental aspect. Travelling from a permanent area of residency to maintain, improve or regain physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health for more than 24 hours and less than a year is referred to as halal health tourism. To progress in this regard, points such as the establishment of a halal health tourism club, the development of a pattern and a model of halal medical tourism can also be given special importance.

This research, which has been conducted using descriptive and analytical method, seeks to gather halal tourism among the narrations that have denounced tourism, and it can be found that Islam has set goals for tourism. Things like "travel," "journey," "person," "hijra," and so on are subset of tourism. Hadiths that have denounced travel do not negate halal tourism, because these kinds of hadiths speak of "tourism" in its represumed sense, i.e. monasticism and mobile isolation, safari with a non-religious purpose, such as deceiveness among others. Chinese and the like signify, but good tourism (halal tourism) leads to the sustainability of social life, strengthening the family institution, scientific vitality, gaining useful experiences and the like, so in the discussion of prayer and fasting traveler and the like, different rulings for halal and haram tourism are expressed.

This study has been written about the growing of Muslim tourists in the world with the aim of introducing halal tourism in Iran and recognizing Iran's challenges and opportunities in this market. And this causes a huge opportunity for all stakeholders, in the tourism industry, due to the growth of travel desire, in Muslim travelers. That requires study and understanding, the cultural and religious needs of Muslim travelers, to create products and services that they required. Therefore, in this regard, to study the factors affecting in halal tourism and Iran's ranking in the world of halal tourism according to the annual report of the Muslim World Travel Index for 2019. In addition, since halal tourism has become the fastest growing industry in the global travel industry, Iran should study and compare it with other pioneering Muslim countries in halal tourism and recognizing opportunities and introducing challenges of Iran so that, with government support, challenges convert to opportunities and hence improve Iran's ranking in this industry.

The Islamic system has faced many problems in recent years, most of them are due to the oil-dependent economy. Halal tourism is one of the branches of economic activity that can guarantee the development of non-oil economy in the country. On the other hand, the high capacity of the mosques and sacred places of worship, such as the shrines of Imams, is a unique opportunity for Halal tourism, which, if opened to non-Muslim tourists, generates a great deal of added value in the economy and leads to preaching of Islam and pure Islamic culture. Regarding the prohibition of the polytheists and disbelievers to enter the mosques and the holy shrines of the infallibles, this paper uses a descriptive method to explain the jurisprudential ruleReconciling the Hearts and its use for the development of halal tourism by providing jurisprudential permission for the People of the Book to enter the mosques and Islamic sacred places. By examining the proofs of reconciling of the hearts as well as the arguments of the inability of the polytheists to enter the mosques, it was finally concluded that the People of the Book, who constitute the major part of foreign tourists, are excluded from the verses that prohibit the entering of those people to mosques. In this way, appropriate investment and targeting as well as using the beautiful artistic features and unique spiritual calm of those places, can be helpful for developing the halal tourism and the endogenous economy in the country and causes preaching Islamic culture to others.