Halal Korea App to Help Muslim Tourists in Korea

Traveling to non-muslim country sometimes sometimes it finds difficult for muslim tourists. They frequently face difficulties to find places for prayer, to know qibla direction ( qibla refers to the direction a muslim faces when praying), to find halal food, etc. But now, I am very happy to find an application “Halal Korea” that people can downloaded from Google Play and App Store. We can also follow Halal Korea page in Facebook.

Korea is one of major tourist destination for muslim tourists. In recent years, there is an increasing mumbers of muslim tourists who visit Korea. They are mainly from Middle East and Asia. In 2014, visitors from Malaysia and Indonesia are in the top 10 of tourists coming to Korea.

Based on data from Korea Tourism Organization, at least there about 750.000 muslim travelers who visited Korea in 2014 or 5,3 percent fo the total foreign tourists. To realize the great potential of muslim travelers, Korea is now being intensively introducing and promoting what it’s called muslim-friendly tourism to attract more muslim tourist traveling to Korea. 

What Korea is doing to develop muslim-friendly tourism among others published muslim tourists guidebook and provided more prayer facilities in many places of tourists sites in Korea, from Nami Island to Jeju Island.

Back to Halal Korea App, I think this application is very helpful for muslim tourists in Korea. In accordance with its slogan “the smart way to find everything halal in Korea” this mobile application give a quick, easy and convenient muslim tours. 

 

This halal tour integrated application provides all information muslim needs when visiting South Korea, such as halal food, halal restaurants, halal food market, mosque, prayer spots, qibla direction, prayer time, Quran digital, community, and the most important thing is scanning feature on this app that muslim tourists can scan the barcode of food products to find that wether or not the product is halal.

The Halal Korea App also offers high level of convenience by sharing tour information on attractions, hotels, shopping festival and transportation.

I am really appreciated the mobile application company that has created this very useful application, because I think we can use of this app not only when we travel to Korea but also when we travel to any other countries, specially to find qibla direction. []


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