Shared Arabian Muslim Travel Photos

  • Dayangku Ida Nurul-Fitri Pengiran-Kahar
  • Sharifah Fatimah Syed-Ahmad
  • Sharifah Hayaati Syed Ismail
  • Jamie Murphy
Conference paper

Abstract

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.

Keywords

user-generated content photo Arab League travel Muslim 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dayangku Ida Nurul-Fitri Pengiran-Kahar
    • 1
    • 2
  • Sharifah Fatimah Syed-Ahmad
    • 1
    • 3
  • Sharifah Hayaati Syed Ismail
    • 4
  • Jamie Murphy
    • 1
  1. 1.Business SchoolUniversity of Western AustraliaAustralia
  2. 2.Faculty of Business and Information TechnologyInstitute of TechnologyBrunei
  3. 3.Faculty of Business and AccountancyUniversity of MalayaMalaysia
  4. 4.Academy of Islamic StudiesUniversity of MalayaMalaysia

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