Contemporary Muslim Travel Cultures

C. Michael Hall is Professor Ahurei in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Visiting Professor and Docent in Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; Visiting Professor in Tourism at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden; Guest Professor in the Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden; and Visiting Professor, Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism, Taylor’s University, Malaysia. He has written widely on tourism, regional development, heritage, food and global environmental change. Siamak Seyfi is Assistant Professor in the Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland. Using a multi-/interdisciplinary approach and informed by diverse disciplinary perspectives, his research interests focus on tourism politics and geopolitics with a primary focus on the MENA region, cultural heritage, Gen Z, resilience, sustainability and qualitative sociological/ethnographic research methods in tourism. S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh is Associate Professor and Director of Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism (CRiT), Taylor’s University, Malaysia. His research interest areas contain sustainable tourism, community participation, residents’ perceptions toward tourism development, and advanced quantitative analysis approaches. He serves as an editorial team and board member of more than 20 reputed tourism and hospitality journals.

Part 1: Introduction and context, 1. Muslim travel cultures: introduction and context, 2. Contemporary Muslim travel and tourism: cultures and consumption, 3. Muslim tourism: A systematic literature review, Part 2: Non-religious travel and tourism, 4. Travel motivation of Muslim tourists: Are they really different?, 5. Exploring Turkish tourists' motivation and perception toward Muslim-friendly tourist destinations, 6. Tourism motives, tourism experience value and cultural change: A focus on Egyptian tourists, Part 3: Pilgrimage and religious travel and tourism, 7. A study on pre-trip experiences of Fijian Pilgrims' Hajj performance, 8. Material religion in Twelver Shiite pilgrimage: resources, values, and dynamics in contemporary Mashhad, 9. An ethnographic study of lived experience of Iranian Arbaeen foot-pilgrims in Iraq, Part 4: Women's travel, 10. Complexities of women solo travelling in a conservative post-soviet Muslim society: The case of Uzbek women, 11. The silent and unseen. Two examples of women's restricted travel in Pakistan, 12. The travel pattern and experiences of Turkish female outbound tourists, 13. The travel motivations and experiences of Turkish solo women travellers, Part 5: Interrelationships between consumers and business, 14. Muslims' perspectives on tourism boycotts - a complicated relationship, 15. Questioning Halal tourism motive: In between Da'wa, business, and life story, 16. Interaction between Muslim attendees and non-Muslim staff: A study of the Islamic MICE market in Thailand, Part 6: Conclusions, 17. Conclusion: Emerging trends and future prospects in the Muslim travel market