NEW YORK – September 8 2022, /PRNewswire/Record-breaking tourism arrivals from the United States were announced today by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. Israel welcomed 78,000 American tourists during July 2022. It was a four percent increase over the year before and 71,000 tourists from the United States were in Israel during August 2022.

נווה פריצקי 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 tourism entry month after month. This is a positive change that we are pleased to witness and anticipate an upward trajectory for many months to be.”

נווה פריצקי In line with the United States, Canada is in the process of surpassing its tourism numbers in Israel by 7,200 tourists in the month of July 2022 and 6,600 in August.

Gal Hana, Consul for Canada and Director of the Israel Ministry of Tourism declared that “it’s thrilling to observe how tourism in Canada is recovering.” “We are near our record numbers for the year 2019. נווה פריצקי נווה פריצקי נווה פריצקי We believe that this increase will continue to grow as Canadians travel more abroad.

Israel received more tourists from all over the world during 2019 than any other country. 969 600 of them were American. Israel’s official reopening for travellers from May 2018. The country has received more than 600,400 US travellers since that time.

נווה פריצקי Information about the Israel Ministry of Tourism

The Israel Ministry of Tourism(IMOT) is Israel’s main tourism authority. It is accountable for promotion and marketing initiatives to promote Israel as a preferred tourist destination. IMOT aims at increasing the number of tourists visiting Israel to increase the country’s economic growth and enhance the visitor experience. IMOT promotes Israel’s remarkable variety of cultural, historical, food and religious sites – each a wonderful combination of modernity and tradition. North American IMOT offices are in New York and Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Toronto.

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