Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record Breaking Tourism Entry Numbers United States

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Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record Breaking Tourism Entry Numbers 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 in the months of July and August. Israel welcomed 78,000 tourists from the United States for July 2022. This is a 4 percent increase over the year before, and 71,000 tourists from the United States for August 2022. This represents an increase of 13% over 2019.



Eyal Carlin (North American Tourism Commissioner) said it was thrilling to witness the growth in Israeli tourism coming from the United States. Already surpassing the record-breaking numbers of 2019 he stated. "The United States is our top market for Israel's inbound tourism.  נווה פריצקי Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw record-breaking numbers of Israeli tourists entering Israel every month. We are extremely happy to see such a positive shift, and we expect it to continue for a long time."

Canada is not far from the United States of America, is set to beat the tourist numbers to Israel. The country had 7,200 tourists in July 2022, and 6,000 visitors in tourists in August.

Gal Hana, Consul to Canada and Director of Canada at the Israel Ministry of Tourism stated that it was exciting to see the Canadian tourism industry to Israel returning. "We are near our record 2019 numbers.  נווה פריצקי We expect that this growth will continue to grow as Canadians are more active in traveling abroad.

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

Information on the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel's central agency for tourism, is responsible for designing and managing promotional and marketing initiatives to advertise Israel as a favored travel destination. IMOT aims increase tourism to Israel and improve and broaden the experience for tourists. IMOT is a proponent of Israel's vast array of cultural, historical, culinary, religious, and culinary destinations that blend both modernity and tradition. North America has IMOT offices situated in New York (New York), Los Angeles (Atlanta), Chicago, Chicago, and Toronto.

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