Global Muslim Travel Index is announced every spring, and attracts great attention. Muslim-friendly destination ranking is supervised and presented by CrescentRating in Singapore and MasterCard Worldwide in the United States of America, calculated based on 11 evaluations with 130 countries and regions in the world as the subject.
What is characteristic about the 2016 result is the increase in score of non-OIC countries. Specifically, the average score of the top 20 OIC countries from 2015 to 2016 increased by 0.8 points from 65.8 66.6 points, but the score of the top 20 non-OIC countries increased by 2.6 from 47.7 to 50.3 in non-OIC countries. That is, preparation for a Muslim-friendly environment is advancing in non-Islam countries.
