السياحة الإسلامية : اتجاه جديد في صناعة السياحة التركية

Abstract EN

2022.

This study aims to highlight the economic importance of Islamic tourism in Turkey and the measures it has taken with the aim of improving the ranking in the Islamic Tourism Competitiveness Index, through improving infrastructure, promotion, and training of human resources, in particular increasing the ability of tourism companies to receive a greater number of Muslim tourists.

The study found that Islamic tourism in Turkey plays an important role through its contribution to economic growth and increased government revenues, where the per-centage of direct GDP of Muslim tourism from direct GDP reached 14% and it creates 140, 000 direct jobs, which enabled it to occupy the second place globally in the Glo-bal Islamic Travel Index in 2022.