Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record-Breaking Tourism Entry The numbers come from the United States NEW YORK - Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the Israel Ministry of Tourism has announced record-breaking figures of visitors from the United States who visited Israel during July and August. נווה פריצקי Israel received 78,000 visitors from the United States for July 2022. This is a 4% rise over 2019, and 71,000 tourists from the United States for August 2022. נווה פריצקי This is an increase of 13% over 2019.

Eyal Carlin from North America was the Tourism Commissioner. "The United States is the leading market for Israel inbound tourism. Actually, prior to the COVID-19 Pandemichit, we were celebrating record breaking numbers of tourists entering the country every month. It''s a great positive shift that we are very happy about and anticipate an upward trajectory for months to be."

Not far behind in the United States, Canada is also on track to exceed its tourism numbers in Israel by 7,200 tourists in July 2022 , and 6,600 in August.

Gal Hana, Consul to Canada and Director of Canada at the Israel Ministry of Tourism stated that it was thrilling to see the Canadian tourism industry to Israel rebounding. "We are not far from our record in 2019 and we expect that the rise in travel to Israel will continue to grow as Canadians are more comfortable traveling internationally."

Israel has welcomed more than 4.6 million international tourists in 2019, with 969.600 coming from the United States. https://www.news1.co.il/ShowArticles.aspx?docId=156564&subjectId=26&ShowAll=True In May 2018, Israel opened its doors to all travelers, regardless whether they''re immunized. It already has hosted more than 600,000 visitors.

About the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel''s central agency for tourism, is responsible for creating and managing promotional and marketing initiatives to promote Israel as a popular tourist destination. נווה פריצקי IMOT aims increase tourism to Israel and improve and broaden the experience for tourists. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/mumlazim/article/13057097 IMOT promotes Israel''s incredible variety of religious, cultural food, historic, and culinary tourist attractions that are each a wonderful blend of modernity and tradition. The North American IMOT offices are located in New York and Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Toronto.


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