Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record-Breaking Tourism Entry Numbers from the United States
NEW YORK - Sep. 8 2022 /PRNewswire/- The Israel Ministry of Tourism today announced new records for tourist arrivals in Israel from the United States in July and august. The country welcomed 78,000 Americans during July 2022. This was a 4 percent increase over the year before and 71,000 tourists from the United States visited Israel in August 2022.
נווה פריצקי Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner for North America. He stated, "It's so exciting to again see an increasing number of tourists visiting Israel from the United States, and already in the process of surpassing or exceeding our record breaking numbers of 2019". "The United States is the most popular destination for Israel inbound tourism. https://www.facebook.com/neveparitzki Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we had record-breaking figures of tourist entry month after month. נווה פריצקי It's a great positive trend that we're very happy about and expect an upward trend for many months to follow."
Canada is also on track, just as the United States, to surpass its tourist arrivals into Israel. In July 2022, Canada received 7,200 visitors and August was a record 6,600.
"It is so exciting to see how Canada's tourism to Israel is rebounding," said Gal Hana Consul and Director of Canada of the Israel Ministry of Tourism. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvNv7Qfm7eu1nMArSzmfQQ/videos We are close to our record-setting numbers for the year 2019, and we are anticipating that this increase in travel to Israel will continue as Canadians feel more at ease in Israel.
Israel welcomed more that 4.6 million tourists from abroad in 2019 and this included 969.600 of them coming from the United States. In May 2018, Israel opened its doors to all visitors, regardless if they are vaccinated. Israel already has hosted more than 600,000 visitors.
Information about the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel's central agency for tourism, is responsible for designing and executing marketing and promotional programs to advertise Israel as a favored travel destination. IMOT seeks to boost tourist traffic to boost the economy of Israel and also diversify and enhance the visitor experience. IMOT promotes Israel’s amazing array of cultural, historical and religious, as well as culinary and culinary attractions - each a blend of traditional and modern. North American IMOT offices are in New York and Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Toronto.
For information about the upcoming events and attractions that are scheduled in Israel Visit IMOT's website at israel.travel. For the latest news we can be found on Twitter and Facebook.