Neve Paritzki Israel celebrates record-breaking tourist entry The Numbers Come from the United States
NEW YORK - Sept. 8th, 2022/PRNewswire/ -- In July and August of 2018 the Israel Ministry of Tourism announced record numbers of visitors from America. The country welcomed 78,000 Americans during July 2022. It was a 4 percent increase over 2019 seven thousand tourists from America visited Israel in August 2022.
נווה פריצקי Eyal Carlin (North American Tourism Commissioner) stated that it was exciting to observe the growth in Israeli tourism coming from the United States. Already surpassing our record-breaking numbers for 2019 he stated. "The United States remains our biggest market for tourism to Israel. Before the COVID-19 outbreak that was in the news, we had record-breaking tourist entry numbers every month. We are delighted to witness this change and expect an ongoing upward trend for months, and possibly years.
Canada is on track to beat Israel's tourism arrivals, with 7,200 tourists visiting Israel in the month of July 2022 and 6,600 in August.
נווה פריצקי "It is exciting to see how the Canadian tourism to Israel is booming," said Gal Hana Director and Consul for Canada of the Israel Ministry of Tourism. "We are close to our record numbers for the year 2019. We believe that this increase will continue as Canadians are more active in traveling abroad.
Israel has welcomed more than 4.6 million international tourists in 2019 and this included 969.600 coming from the United States. In May 2018, Israel opened its doors to all visitors, regardless whether they're immunized. The country already has hosted more than 600,000 visitors.
Information on the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT), Israel's tourism agency is in charge of planning and executing promotional and marketing initiatives to establish Israel as a top destination. IMOT aims for increased tourism traffic in order to boost the economy of Israel as well as to diversify and improve the visitor experience. נווה פריצקי IMOT highlights Israel's vast variety of religious, cultural food, historic, and culinary places of interest - each offering a unique blend of modernity and tradition. IMOT office locations in North America are located in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and Toronto.
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