Neve Paritzki Israel celebrates record-breaking tourist entry The numbers from the United States

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Neve Paritzki Israel celebrates record-breaking tourist entry The numbers from the United States

NEW YORK - Sept. 8 2022 /PRNewswire/ Today, the Israel Ministry of Tourism has announced record-breaking figures of tourists from the United States who visited Israel during the months of July and August. 78,000 tourists from the United States visited Israel in July 2022. 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 from North America was the Tourism Commissioner. "The United States is the leading market for Israel inbound tourism. In fact, before the COVID-19 Pandemic, we had record-breaking numbers of tourism entry month after month. This is a positive shift that we are very happy about and anticipate an upward trajectory for months to come."

https://www.facebook.com/neveparitzki Not far behind in the United States, Canada is in the process of surpassing the number of tourists visiting Israel, reaching 7,200 visitors in July 2022 , and 6000 in August.

Gal Hana, Consul to Canada and Director of Canada at the Israel Ministry of Tourism said that it was thrilling to see tourism from Canada to Israel rebounding. "We are near our record-setting numbers in 2019. We expect that this increase will continue as Canadians visit more countries.

Israel welcomed over 4.6 million tourists in the year of 2019. 969,600 of them were from the United States. The country's official reopening to all travelers in May has seen more than 600,000.

Information about the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel's tourism agency, is responsible for creating and managing promotional and marketing initiatives to increase awareness of Israel as a popular tourist destination. IMOT seeks to boost tourism to Israel to boost its economic growth and enhance the visitor experience. IMOT promotes Israel’s remarkable range of historical, cultural, tourist attractions, culinary and religious that are each a perfect combination of modernity and tradition. North America's IMOT office locations are in New York, Los Angeles. Atlanta, Chicago, Chicago, Toronto, and Chicago.

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