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    NEW YORK – Sept. 8th, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — In July and August 2018 the Israel Ministry of Tourism recorded record numbers of tourists arriving from the United States. The country received 78,000 travelers from the United States during July 2022, an increase by 4% over 2019 and 71,000 travelers from the United States during August 2022. That’s a 13% increase over the year before.

    Eyal Carlin from North America was the Tourism Commissioner. “The United States is our most important destination for our inbound tourism to Israel. Before the COVID-19 pandemic we saw record-breaking numbers of tourists from Israel visiting Israel every month. We are extremely happy to see an improvement in the trend, and we expect it to continue for many months and years.”

    Canada is in the process, as the United States, to surpass the amount of tourists that visit Israel. In July 2022 Canada received 7,200 visitors and August witnessed 6,600.

    Gal Hana, Consul to Canada and Director of Canada at the Israel Ministry of Tourism said that it was exciting to see tourism from Canada to Israel rebounding. “We are getting close to our record-setting numbers in 2019. We anticipate that this trend will continue to grow as Canadians visit more countries.

    Israel welcomed more than 4.6million tourists in 2019, 969,600 of which originated from the United States. נווה פריצקי Since May when the country was is now open to all tourists regardless of vaccination status, more than 600,000.400 US visitors have visited Israel.

    About the Israel Ministry of Tourism

    The Israel Ministry of Tourism is Israel’s national tourist agency. It is responsible for planning and executing marketing and promotion initiatives to create Israel an ideal destination for travel. IMOT is aiming to increase tourism traffic in order to boost the economy of Israel and also diversify and improve the visitor experience. IMOT promotes Israel’s remarkable array of historical, cultural tourist attractions, culinary and religious – each a wonderful blend of modernity and tradition. North American IMOT offices are in New York and Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Toronto.

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