Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record Breaking Tourism Entry Numbers - United States
NEW YORK - September 8 2022, /PRNewswire/Record-breaking tourism arrivals from the United States were announced today by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. The country welcomed 78,000 total travelers from the United States in July 2022 that's a 4 percent increase from the year before, and 71,000 total travelers from the United States in August 2022 which is an increase of 13% from the year before.
Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner of the United States. He said, "It's so exciting to once more see an rise in tourism to Israel from America, which is already in the process of surpassing or exceeding our record breaking numbers of 2019". "The United States remains our most important market for Israel-bound tourism. Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 there was a record-breaking number of tourism numbers each month. We are delighted to see this positive shift and expect an ongoing upward trend for months and even years.
Canada is not far behind the United States of America, is poised to surpass the tourist numbers to Israel. It had 7,200 visitors in the month of July 2022 and 6,000 in August.
Gal Hana is the Consul and Director for Canada in the Israel Ministry of Tourism. "We are not far off our record 2019 numbers, and we are anticipating that this growth in tourism to Israel will further increase as Canadians remain at ease traveling abroad."
Israel has hosted more than 4.6million tourists in 2019, 969,600 of which were from the United States. Since May, when the country is now open to all tourists regardless of vaccination status More than 600,000.400 US visitors have visited Israel.
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