Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record-Breaking Tourism Entry From the United States
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Israel Ministry of Tourism announced today new record-breaking tourist arrivals from the United States visiting Israel in the months of July and August. The country welcomed 78,000 total travelers from the United States in July 2022, a 4% increase from the year before and 71,000 total visitors from the United States in August 2022, a 13% increase from 2019.
Eyal Carlin from North America was the Tourism Commissioner. https://www.themarker.com/labels/2022-09-12/ty-article-labels/00000183-31c8-d6c9-a197-79cd96360000 "The United States is the most popular destination for Israel inbound tourism. Actually, prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we had record-breaking numbers of tourists entering the country month after month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6lwMSJfGow It's a great positive shift that we are happy to see and we expect an upward trend for many months to come."
Canada is poised to beat Israel's tourism arrivals 7200 tourists are expected to visit Israel in July 2022 and 6,600 tourists in August.
נווה פריצקי Gal Hana, Consul to Canada and Director of Canada for Canada at the Israel Ministry of Tourism stated that it was exciting to see Canada's tourism to Israel returning. We are close to our record numbers for 2019 and we expect that this increase in travel to Israel will continue to increase as Canadians feel more at ease when they travel abroad.
נווה פריצקי In the year 2019, Israel welcomed more than 4.6 million global tourists 969,600 of whom came from the United States, and since its official reopening for any traveler regardless of the status of their vaccination in May Israel has received more than 600,400 US travelers.
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