The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations which has membership of 57 countries spread over four continents. The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world. The Standard and Metrology Institute for Islamic countries also seeks for achieving uniformity in metrology, laboratory testing and standardization activities among member states and ensuring education and training and providing technical assistance to the OIC members in the domain of standardization and metrology. OIC/SMIIC Standards are prepared by the Institute’s Technical Committees that are composed of its member states. The experts assigned by the member states participate in the standardization technical work and establish the common OIC/SMIIC Standards aimed to be used by member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the relevant stakeholders in the world. Technical Committee 5 is entitled as “Tourism and Related Issues”. At first, the committee prepared the draft standard on Halal tourism services. Following submission of the document for the review and approval of the member states, the draft has been approved and published as the standard with reference no “OIC/SMIIC 9: 2019 – Halal Tourism Services General Requirements” by 22 December 2019.
Yasin Zülfikaroğlu (Wed,) studied this question.