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The objective of this research was to study the Attribute of Shariah Compliant hotel in Muslim countries. The results of the literature review and related research found that features of Shariah Compliant hotel consists of 16 features as follows: No alcohol, Halal food only, Conservative television Service, Majority of staffof Muslim faith, Quran & Prayer mats available in each room, Separate recreational facilities for men & women, Makers in the rooms indicating the direction of Mecca, No entertainment such as night club, Bed & Toilet should not be placed to face the direction of Mecca , Art in the hotel should not depict the human form, Bidets in the bathrooms, Appropriate entertainment, Hotel financed through Islamic Financial arrangement and Hotel should follow the Zakat principles. (Giving back to the community)
Keywords: Attribution of Shariah Compliant hotel, Muslim Countries
1.1 Introduction
Department of Tourism.(2013). said that in the year of 2007, there were the tourists of Muslim Countries from the Middle East, travelling to visit Thailand in the total number of 393,000 persons who were increased from the year of 2006 to be 34.13%. Later, in January-July in the year of 2008, the circumstance of tourism has been increasingly expanded, it makes the number of the tourists of Muslim Countries from the Middle East enter into Thailand for about 500,000 persons calculated in the rate of growth for about 20%. For this, it excludes the tourists of Muslim Countries in other regions, such as; Malaysia, Indonesia, India, etc. that there are the number of tourists totaling more than 2 million persons. Office of Tourism Development, Ministry of Tourism and Sports has determined some strategies to make the tourism service standard corresponded with the said target group. In addition to the presentation of some new tourism routes for the tourists of Muslim Countries from the Middle East, regarding food, it is deemed as the main factor important part for attracting of Muslim tourists. The tourists of Muslim countries have living on the way of Muslims under the practical frame of religious principles strictly. With this reason, in the daily lives whether it will be the subject of the consumption, all are the things approved by the religion or called as "Halal". Therefore, the food...