NEW YORK – Sept. 8 2022 /PRNewswire/- Today, the Israel Ministry of Tourism has announced record-breaking figures of tourists from the United States who visited Israel during July and August. Israel welcomed 78,000 tourists from the United States for July 2022. נווה פריצקי This is a four% rise over 2019, and 71,000 tourists from the United States for August 2022. This is an increase of 13% over the year before.

נווה פריצקי “It is so exciting to see yet another rise in the number of tourists visiting Israel from the United States, already reaching and surpassing our record-breaking numbers in 2019” stated Eyal Carlin, Tourism Commissioner for North America. “The United States is our most popular destination for tourism to Israel prior to the COVID-19 epidemic, we were celebrating record-breaking tourist numbers every month. We’re so happy to see such a positive shift and we anticipate an upward trajectory for many months and years to follow.”

Canada is also on track, just like the United States, to surpass its tourist arrivals into Israel. In July 2022 Canada saw 7,200 tourists and August was a record the number increase to 6,000.

http://www.news1.co.il/ShowArticles.aspx?docId=459025&subjectId=42&ShowAll=True Gal Hana (Consul and Director for Canada, Israel Ministry of Tourism) declared that “it is so exciting to watch how Canada’s tourist to Israel is growing.” “We are close to our record numbers for the year 2019. We expect that this increase will continue to grow as Canadians visit more countries.

Israel welcomed more that 4.6 million international visitors in 2019 and this included 969.600 being from the United States. In May 2018, Israel opened its doors to all visitors, regardless if they are vaccination-free. The country has already hosted over 600,000.

נווה פריצקי Information on the Israel Ministry of Tourism

The Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT) is Israel’s main tourism organization responsible for planning and executing marketing and promotional initiatives to position Israel as a top destination for travelers. IMOT aims for increased tourist traffic to help support the Israeli economy as well as to diversify and enhance the visitor experience. IMOT is dedicated to promoting Israel’s vast array of cultural, historical and culinary places of interest – each offering the perfect blend of modernity and tradition. North America’s IMOT office locations are New York, Los Angeles. Atlanta, Chicago, Chicago, Toronto, and Chicago.

For more information about forthcoming events, go to IMOT’s site at israel.travel. Find the most up-to-date information through our social media channels on Twitter or Instagram.