News From : DagangHalal.com (20 Apr 2010)
Singapore & Cape Town, 20th April 2010 – Coral International Cape Town, a Five Star Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, is the first Hotel to get a Crescentrating of 6 for its Halal Friendly Services and facilities. Crescentrating is a rating standard which rates Hotels on a scale of 1 to 7 based on the services and facilities the Hotel provides to the Halal conscious travellers.
Owned by Cii Hotel & Resorts Cape Town, a subsidiary of Cii Holdings, and managed by Coral Hotels & Resorts, Coral International Cape Town offers a fully Halal menu, an alcohol-free environment, rooms with Qiblah markings & Islamic TV channels. It also has its own Prayer room for the Guests on the Pool Deck level and Adhaan can be heard from the nearby mosques.
Group CEO for Cii Holdings, Hamza Farooqui, said “We are very pleased to be the first Hotel to be given a rating of 6 for Halal Friendliness by Crescentrating. It is recognition of our vision & effort to promote Coral International as a place where the Halal Conscious traveller can enjoy Cape Town with a peace of mind, whether they are visiting for business or leisure”
As seen in the Halal Food industry and the Islamic Banking industry, Hamza Farooqui believes that the Halal Friendly facilities and services they provide will not only satisfy the needs of the Halal conscious guest, but also other travellers who are looking for such an environment.
A pioneer in the development of the Halal Friendly Travel & Tourism sector, Crescentrating launched the world’s first Halal Friendly Rating standard for Travel and Tourism services & facilities in October 2009. Since then its’ list of Crescentrated Hotels has been growing and now list Hotels from 10 countries on its website.
“With the emerging Halal conscious traveller market, there is a need to provide Halal friendly Travel & tourism facilities to meet the unique needs of this market segment. Coral International Cape Town has fully satisfied our requirement to be the first hotel to be rated 6 by us. This is indeed excellent news for Halal conscious travellers to Cape Town” said Fazal Bahardeen, CEO of Crescentrating.
Crescentrating.com website, apart from listing all Crescentrated Halal friendly hotels, provides destination guides, airport guides, restaurant guides and other information like Qiblah locator, prayer time calculator, etc to cater to the unique needs of the Halal conscious traveller.
“Through the Crescentrating standard and our website, Travel and Tourism service providers are able to highlight their Halal friendly services and facilities and the Halal conscious consumers in turn are able to make educated choices based on our Crescentrating standard” says Fazal.
–TheHalalJournal