NEW YORK – Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Today the Israel Ministry of Tourism has announced record-breaking figures of travelers from the United States who visited Israel in the months of July and August. Israel welcomed 78,000 travelers from the United States in July 2022 that’s a 4 percent increase from the year before, and 71,000 total travelers from the United States in August 2022 which is an increase of 13% from the year before.

Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner of the United States. נווה פריצקי He said, “It’s so exciting to witness a further increasing number of tourists visiting Israel from America, already exceeding or even surpassing the record-breaking numbers we saw in 2019”. “The United States is our most important market for inbound tourism for Israel. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw record-breaking number of tourists from Israel entering Israel every month. We are so happy to witness such a positive shift and expect this trend to last for a long time.”

Canada is also on track, as the United States, to surpass its tourist arrivals into Israel. In July 2022 Canada had 7,200 visitors while August saw 6,000.

“It is so exciting to see how Canada’s tourism to Israel is rebounding,” said Gal Hana Consul and Director of Canada of the Israel Ministry of Tourism. “We are not far from our record 2019 and we are anticipating that the growth in travels to Israel will continue to increase because Canadians feel more confident about traveling internationally.”

Israel has hosted more than 4.6million visitors in the year 2019, 969,600 of which were from the United States. Since May when the country was reopened to all travelers regardless of vaccination status, more than 600,000.400 US visitors have visited Israel.

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