The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects

Mohammed Jemal Ahmed; Atilla Akbaba

doi:10.30625/ijctr.397499

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The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects

Abstract

Recently, Halal tourism has been emerging as lucrative tourism niche both in Muslim and non-Muslim Countries’ destinations. For a long time, tourism industry had been exclusive against Muslims for it was fenced by the so called “Haram” activities. However, nowadays, this problem is being solved through Halal tourism so that more Muslims are engaging in tourism without sacrificing their religion. Countries such as Malaysia, Turkey, Indonesia and Singapore have already entered into Halal tourism. Though Halal tourism is open for both Muslim and non-Muslim customers, stakeholders including scholars in the field have developed a misconception that Halal tourism is only for Muslims. However, in practice, it is compliant with Sharia but open for all. No doubting, Ethiopia can be among the top beneficiaries of Halal tourism developments. Its history as a land of the first Hijra and her geopolitical position for Islamic world enable her to capture the halal tourists’ demand of the Islamic world. In this paper, literatures and previous researches in the area have been analyzed. Both opportunities and challenges that Ethiopia will be facing in implementing halal tourism have also been inventoried and analyzed. Accordingly, the applicability of Halal tourism in Ethiopian context has been well appraised.

Keywords

Challenges,Ethiopia,Halal Tourism,Opportunities

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Mohammed Jemal Ahmed ^*
İZMİR KATİP ÇELEBİ UNİVERSİTY
0000-0002-8744-7328
Türkiye

Atilla Akbaba
0000-0002-9434-2145
Türkiye

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June 30, 2018

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February 22, 2018

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Ahmed, M. J., & Akbaba, A. (2018). The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects. Uluslararası Güncel Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2(1), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.30625/ijctr.397499

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1.Ahmed MJ, Akbaba A. The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects. IJCTR. 2018;2(1):13-22. doi:10.30625/ijctr.397499

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Ahmed, Mohammed Jemal, and Atilla Akbaba. 2018. “The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects”. Uluslararası Güncel Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi 2 (1): 13-22. https://doi.org/10.30625/ijctr.397499.

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Ahmed MJ, Akbaba A (June 1, 2018) The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects. Uluslararası Güncel Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi 2 1 13–22.

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[1]M. J. Ahmed and A. Akbaba, “The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects”, IJCTR, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 13–22, June 2018, doi: 10.30625/ijctr.397499.

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Ahmed, Mohammed Jemal - Akbaba, Atilla. “The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects”. Uluslararası Güncel Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi 2/1 (June 1, 2018): 13-22. https://doi.org/10.30625/ijctr.397499.

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1.Ahmed MJ, Akbaba A. The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects. IJCTR. 2018;2:13–22.

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Ahmed, Mohammed Jemal, and Atilla Akbaba. “The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects”. Uluslararası Güncel Turizm Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2018, pp. 13-22, doi:10.30625/ijctr.397499.

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1.Mohammed Jemal Ahmed, Atilla Akbaba. The Potential of Halal Tourism in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects. IJCTR. 2018 Jun. 1;2(1):13-22. doi:10.30625/ijctr.397499

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