Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record-Breaking Tourism Entry Counts from the United States
NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Israel Ministry of Tourism announced today record-breaking tourism arrivals from the United States visiting Israel in the months of July and August. Israel received 78,000 visitors from the United States for July 2022. This represents a 4% rise over 2019, and 71,000 visitors from the United States for August 2022. https://www.news1.co.il/ShowArticles.aspx?docId=156564&subjectId=26&ShowAll=True This represents a 13% improvement from 2019.
Eyal Carlin from North America was the Tourism Commissioner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6lwMSJfGow "The United States is the top market for Israel inbound tourism. Actually, prior to the COVID-19 Pandemichit, we had record-breaking figures of tourist entry each month. It's a great positive change that we are happy to see and we expect an upward trend for years to come."
Canada is also on track, like the United States, to surpass its tourist arrivals into Israel. In July 2022 Canada had 7,200 visitors while August was a record 6,600.
נווה פריצקיhttps://www.makorrishon.co.il/mumlazim/523585/ "It is thrilling to see how Canada's tourism to Israel is booming," said Gal Hana, Consul and Director for Canada of the Israel Ministry of Tourism. "We are not too far away from our record for 2019 and we expect that the growth in travels to Israel will continue to increase as Canadians feel more confident about traveling across the globe."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARj0i5sZlw Israel welcomed more tourists from around the world in 2019 than any other country. 969 600 were Americans. Israel's official opening for all tourists was in May of 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 Israel's national tourism agency responsible for planning and executing marketing and promotional initiatives to position Israel as a top destination for travel. IMOT seeks to boost tourism to Israel to help boost the economy as well as diversify the tourist experience. IMOT works in Israel to promote the impressive array of cultural and religious attractions - each a unique mix of modernity, tradition and culinary delights. North America's IMOT office locations are in New York, Los Angeles. נווה פריצקי Atlanta, Chicago, Chicago, Toronto, and Chicago.
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