If nothing is accomplished to stop it, the virality of fake news on social media will continue to grow and become more damaging, particularly among young people. Recognizing false information and verifying sources has become increasingly important as people rely on the Internet and social media for their news. The primary objective of this study is to assess the level of understanding of fake news media literacy among university students. Forty-three Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia students enrolled in the New Media Communication program were polled for this research. This study uses descriptive statistics to analyze the data collected via Google Forms—the results of examining the data generated immediately through a Google form. Young people read the news online but still have limited media literacy when assessing the truth of information. Research suggests that false statement is commonly discovered because young people do not carefully examine online news. Researchers conduct in-depth interviews and studies with this demographic to better understand how young people process information and evaluate its veracity. This research adds to the expanding body of knowledge on student use of social media in Malaysia, especially on how students get their news in light of the results of this pilot study, the main research project will consist of in-depth interviews with students to understand more about their perspectives on how to identify and differentiate between real and fake news.

The representation of Islam in the media has been widely discussed by media scholars. In the Malaysian context, Islam is frequently associated with conflicts resulting from political issues or actions taken by religious authorities against any organisation or individual that sparks public debate. The government is also alleged to use Islam as a hegemonic tool to continue dominating the mindset of the lower class by using religion as a political weapon to gain power and maintain the status quo. Newspapers especially those owned by the government have certain ideologies to convey to the general public in order to maintain a specific existing social order. This causes the controversial issues pertaining to Islam to be frequently discussed in the news media in tandem with the vested interest of those owning the newspapers. However, the discourse on issues involving Islam has become more daring after the emergence of digital news portals that enable hegemonic counterarguments to be discussed widely among members in the mentioned medium. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore how Islam and Muslims are represented in online newspapers in Malaysia. Two samples from English-language online newspapers, namely The Star Online and Malaysiakini, were selected. By using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the findings of this study show that Islam, Islamic political parties, and some Muslims in Malaysia have been represented as extremists and backwards by online newspapers.

Islamic tourism highlights the growing importance of what for many may be an untapped and unknown market. With one billion followers across 57 countries, Islam’s role in tourism is important to tourism and hospitality managers in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Consequently, government policies, strategies and programs have laid undue emphasis on the growth of ‘Halal-Hotel’; a total Islamic accommodation standard that prescribes by Islam-ic rules. Halal is fast gaining worldwide recognition and this is not merely because the Mus-lim Ummah is growing in number, but more significantly, because halal is being recognized as a new benchmark for safety and quality assurance. Unfortunately, there are ambiguities pertaining the criteria for ‘halal hotel’ in the hotel sector because the lack of consensus among stakeholders within the Muslim-friendly tourism and hospitality (MFT) sector in Ma-laysia. Furthermore, The translation of Arabic-Islamic terminology into Malay language may offer its advantages as well as challenges to all relevant tourism stakeholders within the Mus-lim-friendly tourism and hospitality (MFT) sector in Malaysia. In terminology translation, equivalents in the target language are usually preferred to be as concise as possible and able to maintain existing morphological and semantic relationship between the translated terms and other morphologically and semantically related source language terms. Moreover, re-searchers and hotel operators have struggled to arrive to an agreement as to what is the most appropriate term or concept that could best and comprehensively describe a hotel that operates according to the Islamicrules and regulations. Therefore, this research aims to identify the dimensionality of ‘halal hotel’ concepts and to explore the suitability of adopting the ‘halal hotel’ as the term to be use among the Muslim-friendly tourism and hospitality (MFT) sectorin Malaysia. A qualitative research method is chosen to conduct this research, and the samples are from the stakeholders which consist of Islamic scholars, hotel operator and the hotel’s guest.

The emergence of e-commerce through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development is among important strategic forces that would transform Malaysia to a knowledge based economy especially in tourism and hospitality industry. Therefore, it is important to understand the dynamics of the e-commerce especially on online service encounter and how the value of the service can be developed in the cyber environment. The interactive relationship with the client and the service provider is the critical moment to make consumers “commit” to a web site. Therefore, this study intends to investigate the relationship of e-Hospitality elements and E-S-Qual on attitude toward website and the mediating effects of flow. The result shows that attitude toward website was explained by both e-Hospitality and ES- Qual and enhanced through the flow. However, the research is without a limitation. First, the experience with the hotel website among the respondents was not tested a priori; second, the measurement was tested specifically on Malaysia hotel website; thirdly, the variability of respondent demographic; and finally, the limitations of the convenience sampling process that affect the generalisability of the results.

These articles explore interpersonal communication in the tourism industry. As the industry faced changes post-pandemic, there is a great reason for the industry to refine people inside the industry, especially the frontliners. Since the frontliners are the first people met and greeted by the tourist, the responsibilities of these groups of industrial players are indeed higher than others. Pieces of the literature suggest that tourism service providers must have expressive communication skills to give a superior product and create a pleasant experience for tourists. Hence, tourism frontliners are expected to be able to express effective interpersonal communication skills both internal and external communication. Interpersonal communication skills in dealing with people are one of the major demands in the industry nowadays. This has created a skills gap in the hospitality industry, which must be addressed if businesses are to remain competitive. It is suggested that the staff in tourism and hospitality should be carefully recruited and should undergo continual training because their communication skills are a significant indicator of their ability to foster favorable interactions with clients. Therefore, this conceptual paper aims to suggest an Islamic approach to improve current tourism frontliners interpersonal communications through Islamic-based communications. The need for interpersonal communication skills in the tourism industry is also highlighted in this article. An integrated model of tourism interpersonal communication with Islamic-based communication was proposed at the end of the article. It is hoped that this conceptual paper will be a stepping stone for research in tourism communication from an Islamic view.

Golongan Lesbian, Gay, Biseksual dan Transgender (LGBT) semakin mendapat per-hatian dan sokongan di seluruh dunia terutamanya di negara Barat. LGBT adalah go-longan homoseksual yang mengamalkan gaya hidup songsang berlawanan dengan fitrah manusia semulajadi. Umum mengetahui Islam melarang sebarang perbuatan yang menjurus kepada perhubungan sejenis dan hal ini menyebabkan isu-isu meli-batkan golongan ini sering kali menjadi perbincangan yang hangat dalam kalangan masyarakat dan media. Faktor agama Islam sebagai agama rasmi bagi negara ini dan masyarakat majoritinya hampir 60 % yang beragama Islamturut menjadikan isu yang melibatkan golongan LGBT ini sering kali mendapat perhatian. Perbincangan dan pelaporan oleh akhbar arus perdana yang berkaitan golongan ini amat penting untuk dikaji kerana pemberitaan yang salah dan lebih-lebih lagi melibatkan agama Islam boleh menjadi pencetus kepada konflik. Agama Islam dan Muslim sebelum ini turut dikaitkan dengan keganasan dan ekstrimisme sehinggakan menyebabkan representasi media mengenai Islam selalunya bersifat negatif. Oleh itu, kajian ini membin-cangkan mengenai pelaporan akhbar-akhbar terpilih di Malaysia mengenai isu penganjuran program Seksualiti Merdeka di Malaysia. Tiga sampel akhbar dikaji iaitu akhbar Utusan Malaysia, The Star dan Malaysiakini. Ketiga-tiga akhbar ini mempunyai ideologi, sasaran pembaca dan pemilikan yang berbeza. Bagi menjawab objektif, kajian ini menggunakan kaedah analisis kandungan kuantitatif dan analisis kan-dungan kualitatif bagi memahami bagaimana isu ini dilaporkan dan dibingkaikan oleh akhbar yang terpilih.. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan akhbar-akhbar yang dikaji menunjukkan perbezaan yang ketara dalam melaporkan isu ini mengikut kepent-ingan ideologi dan pemilikan sesebuah akhbar itu.

Pelancongan merupakan industri bernilai berbilion dolar yang memiliki daya jangkau global. Walau bagaimanapun, banyak sarjana yang berpendapat bahawa tidak semua bentuk pelancongan sesuai dengan objektif Maqasid al-Shariah. Kertas ini menjelajahi perjalanan Ibn Battuta, salah seorang pengembara Muslim yang paling terkenal, sebagai cara untuk memahami bagaimana Maqasid al-Shariah dapat disatukan dalam industri pelancongan. Kertas ini mengkaji bagaimana travelog Ibn Battuta mencerminkan prinsip-prinsip Maqasid al-Shariah dan memberikan potensi tentang bagaimana pelancongan dapat diselarikan dengan nilai-nilai Islam. Artikel ini menyimpulkan dengan perbincangan tentang bagaimana pelajaran yang dipelajari dari perjalanan Ibn Battuta dapat diterapkan dalam amalan pelancongan kontemporari.