NEW YORK - Sept. 8th, 2022/PRNewswire• In July and August of 2018 the Israel Ministry of Tourism announced record numbers of visitors from America. 78,000 tourists from the United States visited Israel in July 2022. נווה פריצקי This represents a 4 percent increase over the year before and 71,000 tourists from the United States in august 2022. This is 13% more than 2019.
Eyal Carlin (North American Tourism Commissioner) said it was thrilling to witness a rise in Israeli tourism from the United States. נווה פריצקי Already surpassing the record-breaking numbers of 2019 he stated. "The United States has been our most important source of tourism for Israel inbound. Before the COVID-19 outbreak, we had been celebrating record-breaking numbers of Israel's tourism entry each month.
Canada, not too far from the United States of America, is set to beat its tourist arrivals to Israel. The country had 7,200 visitors in the month of July 2022 as well as 6,000 tourists in August.
Gal Hana is the Consul and Director for Canada in the Israel Ministry of Tourism. We're not too far from our record 2019 numbers and we expect that this growth in Israel travel will continue to grow as Canadians are more comfortable traveling across the world."
Israel received more tourists from around the world in 2019 than any other country. 969 600 were American. Israel's official reopening to all travelers was May 2018. The country has already received more than 600,400 US tourists since the time of opening.
About the Israel Ministry of Tourism:
The Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT) is the country's tourism organization responsible for planning and executing marketing and promotional initiatives to promote Israel as a top travel destination. IMOT is aiming to increase the number of tourists visiting Israel and enhance and diversify the tourism experience. IMOT is a proponent of Israel's amazing range of religious, cultural food, historical, and culinary tourist attractions that are each a wonderful combination of tradition and modernity. The North American IMOT offices are situated in New York and Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Toronto.
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