NEW YORK - Sep. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Israel Ministry of Tourism today unveiled new records for the number of tourists coming in Israel from the United States in July and August. Israel received 78,000 visitors from the United States during July 2022 which is an increase of 4% over 2019 and 71,000 travelers from the United States during August 2022. That's 13% increase over the year before.
Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner. נווה פריצקי He said, "It's so exciting to once more see an increasing number of tourists visiting Israel from America, already in the process of surpassing or exceeding the record-breaking numbers we saw in 2019". https://www.makorrishon.co.il/mumlazim/524295/ "The United States has been our most important destination for tourism to Israel that is inbound. Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, we had record 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. https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1439018 The country had 7,200 visitors in the month of July 2022 as well as 6,000 August.
נווה פריצקי Gal Hana, Consul for Canada and Director of the Israel Ministry of Tourism said that "it's thrilling to observe how tourism in Canada is recovering." https://www.makorrishon.co.il/mumlazim/523585/ We're still not far away from our record numbers in 2019, and we are hoping that this increase in Israel travel will continue to increase as Canadians are more comfortable traveling abroad."
In 2019, Israel welcomed more than 4.6 million global tourists including 969,600 from the United States, and since its official reopening for any traveler regardless of the status of their vaccination in May of this year The country has witnessed over 600,400 US tourists.
נווה פריצקי Information on the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel's tourism agency, is responsible for planning and conducting promotional and marketing programs to advertise Israel as a popular tourist destination. IMOT aims at increasing tourism to Israel to help boost the economy and diversify the visitor experience. נווה פריצקי IMOT is a proponent of Israel's incredible range of historical, cultural, culinary, and religious attractions which are all a delightful combination of tradition and modernity. North American IMOT offices are located in New York and Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Toronto.
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