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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2010 pp 543–554Cite as

Shared Arabian Muslim Travel Photos

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This paper investigates user generated Muslim travel photos in the understudied Arab World. In June 2009, Flickr had over 8,000 Muslim travel photos for Arab countries. Content analysis on 589 photos revealed that males surpassed females in posting photos and nearly two-thirds of the photos showed human presence. The North African region had more photos with human presence than the Middle East region. Most Arab countries had more male than female presence, with four in five female photos containing females wearing a headscarf. Countries with more or equal female presence to males could suggest investment opportunities by female business entrepreneurs with Arab Muslim women.

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  1. Business School, University of Western Australia, Australia

    Dayangku Ida Nurul-Fitri Pengiran-Kahar, Sharifah Fatimah Syed-Ahmad & Jamie Murphy

  2. Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Institute of Technology, Brunei

    Dayangku Ida Nurul-Fitri Pengiran-Kahar

  3. Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, Malaysia

    Sharifah Fatimah Syed-Ahmad

  4. Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia

    Sharifah Hayaati Syed Ismail

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  1. Laboratory for Intelligent Systems in Tourism, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA

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  2. School of Hotel & Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

    Rob Law

  3. European Tourism Research Inst. (ETOUR), Mid Sweden University, Sweden

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Pengiran-Kahar, D.I.NF., Syed-Ahmad, S.F., Ismail, S.H.S., Murphy, J. (2010). Shared Arabian Muslim Travel Photos. In: Gretzel, U., Law, R., Fuchs, M. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2010. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99407-8_45

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