How Thailand is making itself more appealing to Muslim travellers

OddTrader · Mar 20, 2017

How Thailand is making itself more appealing to Muslim travellers

He estimates the number of Muslim travellers has surged from around 25 million a year in 2000 to 117 million in 2015.

March 20, 2017

http://www.news.com.au/travel/world...s/news-story/8f066d943600bdb5b0a4baae8ada01e5

It was local Thai Muslims who first began asking for the country’s halal testing centre, a business that scours products for any banned substances and has since boomed.

“Fifteen years ago there was only 500 food plants that had halal certification. Now it’s 6000,” Winai told AFP as female lab technicians in headscarves tested food products for traces of pork DNA.

Over the same period the number of halal certified products made in Thailand has gone from 10,000 to 160,000, he added.

It’s paid off. The government estimates the halal food industry is already worth $6 billion a year.

As Thailand has quickly learned, there’s gold at the end of the halal rainbow.
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How Thailand is making itself more appealing to Muslim travellers

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