NEW YORK - Sept. 8th, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In July and August 2018, the Israel Ministry of Tourism announced record numbers of tourists arriving from the United States. The country received 78,000 travelers from the United States during July 2022 which was an increase by 4% over 2019 and 71,000 tourists from the United States during August 2022. נווה פריצקי That's a 13% increase over the year before.
"It is so exciting to witness a new increase in tourist numbers to Israel from the United States, already reaching and surpassing our record-breaking numbers in 2019." stated Eyal Carlin, Tourism Commissioner for North America. נווה פריצקי "The United States is the leading market for Israel inbound tourism. In fact, before the COVID-19 Pandemic, we had record-breaking figures of tourist entry every month. This is a positive change that we are pleased to witness and expect an upward trend for many months to come."
Canada is set to surpass Israel's arrivals in tourist numbers by attracting 7,200 tourists to Israel in July 2022, and 6,600 in August.
Gal Hana, Consul to Canada and Director for Canada at the Israel Ministry of Tourism stated that it was exciting to see the Canadian tourism industry to Israel rebounding. "We are getting close to our record 2019 numbers. We expect that this increase will continue to grow as Canadians are more active in traveling abroad.
Israel welcomed more tourists from all over the world during the year 2019 than any other nation. 969 600 of these were Americans. Israel's official reopening for all travelers was May 2018. https://www.makorrishon.co.il/mumlazim/523585/ The country has already welcomed more than 600,400 US travellers since that time.
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/mumlazim/article/13057097 Information about the Israel Ministry of Tourism:
The Israel Ministry of Tourism(IMOT) is Israel’s national tourism organization. It is in charge of marketing and promotional initiatives to establish Israel as a popular tourist destination. https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1439018 IMOT is aiming to increase the number of tourists visiting Israel to help boost the economic growth and enhance the visitor experience. נווה פריצקי IMOT is a proponent of Israel's amazing array of cultural, religious food, historic, and culinary attractions - each a perfect combination of tradition and modernity. North America has IMOT offices situated in New York (New York), Los Angeles (Atlanta), Chicago, Chicago, and Toronto.
https://www.news1.co.il/ShowArticles.aspx?docId=459025&subjectId=42&ShowAll=True For more information about the upcoming events and attractions that are scheduled in Israel you can visit IMOT's website at israel.travel. For the most up-to-date information we can be found on Twitter and Facebook.