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Neve Paritzki Israel Celebrates Record-Breaking Tourism Entry Numbers from the United States
NEW YORK, Sept. 8th, 2022 /PRNewswire-- The Israel Ministry of Tourism announced today record-breaking numbers of tourists from the United States visiting Israel in the months of July and August. The country welcomed 78,000 total travelers from the United States in July 2022 which is an increase of 4% from 2019, and 71,000 total travelers from the United States in August 2022 which is an increase of 13% from 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6lwMSJfGow Eyal Carlin from North America was the Tourism Commissioner. "The United States is the top market for Israel inbound tourism. In fact, before the COVID-19 Pandemichit, we were celebrating record-breaking numbers of tourism entry every month. It's a great positive shift that we are happy to see and we anticipate an increase in the many months to come."

Canada is not far behind the United States of America, is on track for surpassing the number of tourists visiting Israel. It had 7,200 visitors in the month of July 2022, and 6,000 visitors in August.

https://www.news1.co.il/ShowArticles.aspx?docId=156564&subjectId=26&ShowAll=True נווה פריצקי Gal Hana (Consul and Director for Canada, Israel Ministry of Tourism) declared that "it is so exciting to see how Canada's tourism to Israel is growing." https://www.themarker.com/labels/2022-09-12/ty-article-labels/00000183-31c8-d6c9-a197-79cd96360000 We're not too away from our record-setting numbers for 2019, and we anticipate that this surge in Israel travel will continue to increase as Canadians are more comfortable traveling across the world."

Israel welcomed more tourists from all over the world in 2019 than any other nation. 969 600 of these were Americans. https://www.haaretz.co.il/labels/2022-09-12/ty-article-labels/00000183-31c4-dc67-addb-79d7ffad0000 Israel's official reopening for all travelers was May 2018. The country has been home to over 600,400 US tourists since the time of opening.


About the Israel Ministry of Tourism:
The Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT) is Israel's main tourism authority responsible for preparing and executing marketing and promotional initiatives to promote Israel as a preferred destination for travelers. IMOT aims increase tourism to Israel and improve and broaden the experience for tourists. IMOT is a proponent of Israel's amazing variety of religious, cultural food, historic, and culinary tourist attractions that are each a wonderful combination of tradition and modernity. IMOT office locations in North America are located in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and Toronto.

For information on the upcoming events and attractions that are scheduled in Israel you can visit IMOT's website at israel.travel. Follow us on Twitter, Twitter and Instagram for the most current information.

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