NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 2022/PRNewswire– The Israel Ministry of Tourism announced today new record-breaking tourist 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 is a four% rise over 2019, and 71,000 tourists from the United States for August 2022. This represents a 13% improvement from the year before.
Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner. He stated, “It’s so exciting to again see an increasing number of tourists visiting Israel from America, which is already exceeding or even surpassing our record-breaking numbers for 2019”. נווה פריצקי נווה פריצקי “The United States is our top market for inbound tourism for Israel. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had record number of tourists from Israel entering Israel every month. We are thrilled to see such a positive shift and expect this trend to last for a long time.”
Canada is in the process, as the United States, to surpass the amount of tourists that visit Israel. In July 2022 Canada had 7,200 visitors while August was a record the number increase to 6,000.
Gal Hana is the Consul and Director for Canada in the Israel Ministry of Tourism. We are still not far from our record numbers for 2019, and we anticipate that this surge in Israel travel will continue to increase as Canadians are more comfortable traveling internationally.”
In 2019, Israel welcomed more than 4.6 million international tourists, 969,600 of them coming from the United States, and since the country’s official opening to any traveler regardless of vaccination status in May this year The country has witnessed more than 600,400 US tourists.
About the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel’s central agency for tourism, is responsible for planning and executing marketing and promotional programs to advertise Israel as a favored travel destination. נווה פריצקי IMOT is aiming to increase the number of tourists visiting Israel to boost its economy as well as diversify the tourist experience. IMOT promotes Israel’s remarkable range of historical, cultural, food and religious sites which are all a delightful combination of modernity and tradition. North America has IMOT offices which are located in New York (New York), Los Angeles (Atlanta), Chicago, Chicago, and Toronto.
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