NEW YORK, Sept. 8th, 2022 /PRNewswire The Israel Ministry of Tourism announced today new record-breaking tourist arrivals from the United States visiting Israel in the months of July and August. Israel welcomed 78,000 tourists from the United States for July 2022. This represents a 4 percent increase over the year before, and 71,000 tourists from the United States for August 2022. This is an increase of 13% from 2019.

Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner of the United States. נווה פריצקי He stated, “It’s so exciting to once more see an increasing number of tourists visiting Israel from America, which is already exceeding or even surpassing the record-breaking numbers we saw in 2019”. נווה פריצקי “The United States remains our biggest market for tourism to Israel. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak that was in the news, we had record-breaking tourist entry numbers every month. We are thrilled to see this positive shift and are expecting an ongoing upward trend for months or even years.

Canada, which has 7,200 visitors in July 2022, and 6,000 in August, isn’t too far from the United States.

Gal Hana (Consul and Director for Canada, Israel Ministry of Tourism) said that “it is so exciting to observe how Canada’s travel to Israel is booming.” “We are near our record-setting numbers in 2019. We anticipate that this trend will continue as Canadians visit more countries.

Israel has welcomed more than 4.6 million international tourists in the year 2019, with 969.600 of them coming from the United States. In May 2018, Israel opened its doors to all tourists, no matter if they are vaccinated. It already has hosted more than 600,000 visitors.

About the Israel Ministry of Tourism

The Israel Ministry of Tourism is Israel’s tourism authority. It develops and executes marketing and promotional activities to create Israel an ideal destination for travel. IMOT is aiming to increase the number of tourists visiting Israel and enhance and broaden the experience for tourists. IMOT is working in Israel to promote the impressive range of religious and cultural tourist attractions that are each an exceptional blend of tradition, modernity and culinary delights. The IMOT offices for North America are in New York City, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

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