ISLAMIC TOURISM AS A NEW FIELD IN ISLAMIC ECONOMIC NOWADAYS.

Mohd Noor Faris Bin Zool,Faculty of Economics and Management,

National University of Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

Islamic economics is a knowledge that studies the behavior of human’s economy which the behavior was based by the guidelines of sharia’ and backed by Tauhid. The Islamic economy was not focused to banking business and investment only but Islamic tourism also was the part from the Islamic economy. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyses the potential of Islamic tourism in play their role at the development period of modern islamic economy in general view. The potential factors that seen in this paper is the potential of agents and player in the industry, the potential of interested places and country, the potential of market and prices and distinguish the condition of Islamic tourism between past and current situation. This paper also investigating the history of Islamic tourism and islamic perceptive on Islamic tourism in general view. Islamic tourism can be a new frontier in Islamic economic in the international stages. The methodology of this paper is conceptual and theoretical which implement the qualitative method and exploratory data analysis. The resources of the collected data was taken from books, journals, magazines, websites, and official documents. The expected finding for this paper is Islamic tourism has the huge and wide potential to grow in the Islamic economic industry and can be a part of Islamic economic’s insturmen that help and give the positive impact to the development and well plan of Islamic economics as a economy hub in several countries. This paper could help the academician to improve the knowledge and understanding and could be a reference while construct the new further research. On the other hand, this paper could help the investor to make the reasonable decision toward the potential of Islamic tourism to develop the Islamic tourism industry and it’s can be a potential hub of modern islamic economic. This paper also could help government to intervene the development of Islamic tourism and develop Islamic tourism.

Keyword : Islamic economics, Islamic tourism, potential factors, history of Islamic tourism, Islamic perceptive on Islamic tourism.