Neve Paritzki Israel is celebrating record-breaking tourism entry From the USA

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Neve Paritzki Israel is celebrating record-breaking tourism entry From the USA

NEW YORK - September 8 2022new record-breaking tourism arrivals from the United States were announced today by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. The country welcomed 78,000 visitors from the United States for July 2022. This is a 4 percent increase over 2019 and 71,000 visitors from the United States for August 2022. This is an increase of 13% over the year before.



Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner for North America. He said, "It's so exciting to once more see an increase of tourism to Israel from the United States, and already in the process of surpassing or exceeding the record-breaking numbers we saw in 2019". "The United States is the leading market for Israel inbound tourism. Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we had record-breaking numbers of tourists entering the country each month. It's a great positive trend that we're happy to see and we expect an upward trend for years to follow."

נווה פריצקי Canada is on track to surpass Israel's tourist arrivals by attracting 7,200 tourists to Israel in the month of July 2022 and 6,600 tourists in August.

Gal Hana, Consul for Canada and Director of the Israel Ministry of Tourism said that "it's so exciting to witness how Canada’s tourism is rebounding." "We are not far from our record 2019, and we anticipate that the increase in travel to Israel will continue to grow because Canadians feel more confident about traveling internationally."

נווה פריצקי Israel has hosted more than 4.6million visitors in the year 2019, of which 969,600 originated from the United States. Since May when the country was opened to all visitors, regardless of their vaccination status, more than 600,000.400 US visitors have visited Israel.

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