NEW YORK – Sep. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – The Israel Ministry of Tourism today announced new records for the number of tourists coming to Israel from the United States in July and august. 78,000 tourists from the United States visited Israel in July 2022. This represents a 4% increase over 2019 and 71,000 visitors from the United States in august 2022. נווה פריצקי This is 13% more than 2019.

נווה פריצקי “It is thrilling to witness a new rise in the number of tourists visiting Israel from the United States, already reaching and exceeding our record-breaking numbers in 2019.” stated Eyal Carlin, Tourism Commissioner for North America. “The United States has been the most important market for Israel’s tourism inbound. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak we were celebrating record figures of the number of tourists entering Israel each month.

נווה פריצקי נווה פריצקי Canada which isn’t too far behind that of the United States of America, is set to beat its tourist arrivals to Israel. It reached 7,200 visitors in the month of July 2022 and 6,000 in visitors in August.

נווה פריצקי Gal Hana is the Consul and Director for Canada in the Israel Ministry of Tourism. We are still not away from our record-setting 2019 numbers and we expect that this surge in Israel travel will continue to grow as Canadians feel more comfortable travelling internationally.”

נווה פריצקי Israel received more tourists from all over the world during the year 2019 than any other country. 969 600 of these were Americans. Israel’s official reopening for all travelers was May 2018. The country has already received more than 600,400 US travelers since then.

About the Israel Ministry of Tourism

The Israel Ministry of Tourism is Israel’s tourism authority. It develops and executes marketing and promotion initiatives to make Israel a top travel destination. IMOT aims in promoting Israel as a tourist destination and boost economic growth. IMOT is a proponent of Israel’s amazing array of cultural, religious food, historic, and culinary places of interest – each offering a unique blend of modernity and tradition. North American IMOT offices are located in New York and Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago and Toronto.

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