Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record Breaking Tourism Entry Numbers United States NEW YORK - September 8 2022Record-breaking tourist arrivals to the United States were announced today by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. נווה פריצקי Israel welcomed 78,000 tourists from the United States in July 2022, a 4% increase from the year before, and 71,000 total travelers from the United States in August 2022 that's an increase of 13% from 2019.


Eyal Carlin from North America was the Tourism Commissioner. "The United States is our number one market for inbound tourism for Israel. Before the COVID-19 pandemic we had record-breaking numbers of tourists from Israel visiting Israel every month. We are thrilled to have witnessed an improvement in the trend and expect this trend to last for many months and years."

Canada, not too far behind that of the United States of America, is poised to surpass the tourist numbers to Israel. It reached 7,200 tourists in July 2022 as well as 6,000 visitors in August.

נווה פריצקי Gal Hana is the Consul and Director for Canada in the Israel Ministry of Tourism. We're still not far from our record numbers for 2019, and we anticipate that this growth in Israel travel will continue to increase as Canadians find it easier to travel across the world."

נווה פריצקי Israel received more visitors from all over the world during 2019 than any other nation. 969 600 of these were American. https://www.news1.co.il/ShowArticles.aspx?docId=459025&subjectId=42&ShowAll=True Israel's official reopening for travellers from May 2018. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSvNv7Qfm7eu1nMArSzmfQQ/videos Israel has received more than 600,400 US travellers since that time.

About the Israel Ministry of Tourism:
The Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT) the tourism department of Israel, is responsible for planning and implementing promotional and marketing initiatives to establish Israel as a top destination. IMOT is aiming to increase the number of tourists visiting Israel and enhance and diversify the tourist experience. IMOT operates in Israel to promote the impressive variety of religious and cultural places of interest - each offering a distinct blend of tradition, modernity and culinary delights. North America has IMOT offices situated in New York (New York), Los Angeles (Atlanta), Chicago, Chicago, and Toronto.

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