Islamic tourism is much broader than visiting the holy places at the various seasons throughout the year. One cannot determine it through one or two concepts. It includes all kinds of family tourism that respects religious principals as well as tourism aiming at the discoveries of old civilizations and their heritage, visiting cities and countries to come to know them, to rest, or for recreation and treatment. Tourism from the Islamic point of view is integrated in the global vision of civilized and interdependent tourism, whose principal bases are: 1. Respect of the noble human values and ethics which preserves for the human being his dignity and pride 2. Respect for the natural and societal environment 3. Support for social solidarity by taking care to profit the local populations from the tourist activity 4. Making the effort to give the right of travel to all people by offering services at suitable prices to all the social classes 5. Respect for people who observe the Islamic values; those prohibiting certain things permitted by certain societies. Islamic tourism can be described in economic, cultural and religious terms: - As an economic concept, it aims at the expansion of tourism within the Muslim world, developing new tourist destinations and strengthening institutional and governmental cooperation inside the Muslim world. - As a cultural concept, it focuses on Islamic topics in the organization of tourist programs and presents Islamic heritage sites, which Muslim tourists can visit. Religious tourism and “touristic” interpretations of pilgrimage also come under the cultural concept of Islamic tourism. - As a conservative religious concept, it aims at the adjustment of the tourist industries to the fundamental interpretations of Islam, including gender-segregated and alcohol-free venues as well as “Islamically” financed and organized tourism. This conception further aspires to “Inter-Islamic Community Tourism.”