The world's first full featured travel booking site catering to Muslims. HalalTrip.com will help Muslim travelers in planning and booking their trips. This user-friendly site makes it easy for Muslim Travelers to match their lifestyle with hotels, flights and tour packages.
SINGAPORE – The travel industry has been lacking a dedicated travel booking site catering to the needs of Muslims. All that is changed with the acquisition of HalalTrip.com by Crescentrating, the world’s leading authority on Halal Travel. It is now re-launching HalalTrip.com as the world’s first full-fledged travel booking site that specializes in the needs of the Muslim traveler.
HalalTrip.com features over 380,000 Booking.com hotels and other accommodations to choose from. A global directory of Halal restaurants, mosques and other Halal friendly amenities near the hotel and surrounding neighborhood will allow the travelers to make educated choices. Crescentrated Hotels will also be featured with information regarding their verified and audited Halal friendly facilities and amenities. HalalTrip.com has partnered with Booking.com to provide its customers with one of the world’s largest inventories of hotel and holiday travel accommodations.
Flight booking will be powered by Wego.com‘s meta-search engine producing the best prices for flights while booking travel arrangements. During a recent interview, Ross Veitch, Wego CEO & Founder, had this to say: “Wego is delighted to be providing flight search technology for HalalTrip.com. We congratulate Crescentrating on their innovative ratings system they are bringing to the market to enable Islamic travellers to make better lifestyle and travel decisions.”
One of the features which will be available soon for Halal conscious travelers will be tour packages tailor made for this market segment in partnership with Kuoni, one of the world’s largest wholesale tour operators.
Dany Bolduc, Chief Operating Officer for Crescentrating, had this to say: “We are most proud of the HalalTrip.com website and are aiming to be the leader in the online travel booking market for Halal Travel. We have very ambitious plans with an ever growing database and additional features to create a hassle-free travel experience for Muslim travelers.” Other features will be added progressively including Arabic and other language interfaces.
Muslim travelers’ expenditure is estimated to reach USD 200 billion by 2020. Along with the increasing penetration of Internet and smart phones in the Middle East and other Muslim majority markets, online travel booking is set to grow rapidly in these regions.
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