NEW YORK - September 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -Record-breaking tourist arrivals to the United States were announced today by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. נווה פריצקי Israel received 78,000 visitors from the United States for July 2022. This is a four% rise over 2019, and 71,000 visitors from the United States for August 2022. נווה פריצקי This represents a 13% improvement from the year before.
נווה פריצקי Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner of the United States. He said, "It's so exciting to witness a further increasing number of tourists visiting Israel from America, already reaching or surpassing our record breaking numbers of 2019". "The United States has been the most important destination for tourism to Israel that is inbound. Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, we were celebrating record number of Israeli tourism entries every month.
Canada is also on track, just like the United States, to surpass its tourist arrivals into Israel. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/mumlazim/article/13057097 In July 2022 Canada saw 7,200 tourists and August was a record 6,000.
Gal Hana is the Consul and Director for Canada in the Israel Ministry of Tourism. We're close to reaching our record numbers for 2019 and we expect that this increase in travel to Israel will continue to increase as Canadians feel more at ease when they travel abroad.
In 2019, Israel welcomed more than 4.6 million global tourists 969,600 of whom came from the United States, and since its official reopening for any traveler regardless of the status of their vaccination in May this year, the country has already seen over 600,400 US tourists.
Information about the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT) is Israel's national tourism organization responsible for planning and executing marketing and promotional initiatives to promote Israel as a popular destination for travelers. IMOT aims at increasing tourism to Israel to boost its economy as well as diversify the tourist experience. https://ashdodnet.com/%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9-%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8-%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%95%D7%94-%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%A7%D7%99-%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%96%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%95%D7%94-%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%91-%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%92%D7%99%D7%A2-%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9D-1-%D7%91%D7%92%D7%95%D7%92%D7%9C-516889 IMOT promotes Israel’s remarkable variety of cultural, historical, tourist attractions, culinary and religious that are each a perfect blend of modernity and tradition. The North American IMOT offices are situated in New York and Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Toronto.
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