Issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in Malaysia

Spiritual tourism is a new discovery area in the field of Religious Tourism, for example Islamic Tourism. The emergence and development of Islamic Tourism has encouraged people to travel to Islamic countries for many reasons, including educational, religion and spirituality purposes. Some people a...

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Main Authors:	Abdul Aziz, Maimunah, Ibrahim, Mansor, Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen, Abdullah, Alias
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	World Research Library 2016
Subjects:	NA Architecture Islamic art and architecture
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/50081/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50081/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50081/1/50081_Issues%20and%20potential%20of%20mosque.pdf

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spelling	iium-500812017-10-23T04:01:50Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50081/ Issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in Malaysia Abdul Aziz, Maimunah Ibrahim, Mansor Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen Abdullah, Alias NA Architecture Islamic art and architecture Spiritual tourism is a new discovery area in the field of Religious Tourism, for example Islamic Tourism. The emergence and development of Islamic Tourism has encouraged people to travel to Islamic countries for many reasons, including educational, religion and spirituality purposes. Some people are travelling for spirituality of a place, but some are looking for educational aspects of the place. In Malaysia, Islamic Tourism is drastically developing since the country has the various assets for Islamic destination to exhibit their religion and culture like mosque, university and museums. Being an Islamic country, one of dominant Islamic tourism destinations in Malaysia is the mosque. Mosque is a ‘concrete symbol’ and ‘cultural pride’ of the country as it portrays the Muslim society and nationhood in Malaysia. Besides, since the early days, mosque plays pivotal roles by serving a comprehensive function to the community including educational, cultural and political matters. Unfortunately, in the current scenario, it does not really function as it was before. Therefore, the paper intended to discover issues and potential of mosque as a tourism destination pride in Malaysia through document analysis and interview with the mosque officers. Through the issues identified, a structural research framework could be developed to maximize mosque’ role and function as a tourism destination in Malaysia. This writing is beneficial for the researchers as well as destination planners to develop research in discovering tourists’ needs and satisfaction on mosque’s condition and management in Malaysia, more specifically in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. World Research Library 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50081/1/50081_Issues%20and%20potential%20of%20mosque.pdf Abdul Aziz, Maimunah and Ibrahim, Mansor and Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen and Abdullah, Alias (2016) Issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in Malaysia. In: ISER 22nd International Conference 2016, 13th Feb. 2016, Hong Kong. http://worldresearchlibrary.org/proceeding.php?pid=206
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spellingShingle	NA Architecture Islamic art and architecture Abdul Aziz, Maimunah Ibrahim, Mansor Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen Abdullah, Alias Issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in Malaysia
description	Spiritual tourism is a new discovery area in the field of Religious Tourism, for example Islamic Tourism. The emergence and development of Islamic Tourism has encouraged people to travel to Islamic countries for many reasons, including educational, religion and spirituality purposes. Some people are travelling for spirituality of a place, but some are looking for educational aspects of the place. In Malaysia, Islamic Tourism is drastically developing since the country has the various assets for Islamic destination to exhibit their religion and culture like mosque, university and museums. Being an Islamic country, one of dominant Islamic tourism destinations in Malaysia is the mosque. Mosque is a ‘concrete symbol’ and ‘cultural pride’ of the country as it portrays the Muslim society and nationhood in Malaysia. Besides, since the early days, mosque plays pivotal roles by serving a comprehensive function to the community including educational, cultural and political matters. Unfortunately, in the current scenario, it does not really function as it was before. Therefore, the paper intended to discover issues and potential of mosque as a tourism destination pride in Malaysia through document analysis and interview with the mosque officers. Through the issues identified, a structural research framework could be developed to maximize mosque’ role and function as a tourism destination in Malaysia. This writing is beneficial for the researchers as well as destination planners to develop research in discovering tourists’ needs and satisfaction on mosque’s condition and management in Malaysia, more specifically in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdul Aziz, Maimunah Ibrahim, Mansor Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen Abdullah, Alias
author_facet	Abdul Aziz, Maimunah Ibrahim, Mansor Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen Abdullah, Alias
author_sort	Abdul Aziz, Maimunah
title	Issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in Malaysia
title_short	Issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in Malaysia
title_full	Issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in Malaysia
title_sort	issues and potential of mosque as a spiritual tourism destination in malaysia
publisher	World Research Library
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/50081/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50081/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50081/1/50081_Issues%20and%20potential%20of%20mosque.pdf
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