Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record-Breaking Tourism Entry Numbers 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 tourist arrivals from America. 78,000 tourists from the United States visited Israel in July 2022. This represents a 4 percentage increase over 2019, and 71,000 visitors from the United States in august 2022. This is 13% higher than in the year 2019.
Eyal Carlin (North American Tourism Commissioner) said it was thrilling to witness an increase in tourism to Israel coming from the United States. Already surpassing the record-breaking numbers of 2019, he said. "The United States is our most important market for inbound tourism for Israel. Before the COVID-19 pandemic we had record numbers of Israeli tourists entering Israel each month. We are so happy to see this positive change, and we expect this trend to last for many months and years."
Not far behind the United States, Canada is in the process of surpassing the number of tourists visiting Israel by 7,200 tourists in July 2022 and 6,000 in August.
"It is exciting to see how tourism from Canada to Israel is growing," said Gal Hana Director and Consul for Canada for the Israel Ministry of Tourism. "We are near our record 2019 numbers. We anticipate that this growth will continue as Canadians are more active in traveling abroad.
נווה פריצקי Israel has hosted more than 4.6million tourists in 2019, 969,600 of which were from the United States. Since May when the country was is now open to all tourists regardless of vaccination status over 600,000.400 US visitors have visited Israel.
About the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism(IMOT) is Israel’s national tourism authority. It is responsible for promotion and marketing initiatives in order to position Israel as a preferred tourist destination. IMOT is aiming to increase tourism to help support the Israeli economy as well as to diversify and enhance visitors' experience. IMOT highlights Israel's vast range of religious, cultural food, historic, and culinary tourist attractions that are each a wonderful blend of modernity and tradition. North America's IMOT office locations are New York, Los Angeles. Atlanta, Chicago, Chicago, Toronto, and Chicago.
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