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Neve Paritzki Israel celebrates record-breaking tourist entry The numbers from the United States
NEW YORK - Sept. 8 2022 /PRNewswire/ Today the Israel Ministry of Tourism revealed record-breaking numbers of travelers from the United States who visited Israel in July and August. 78,000 visitors from the United States visited Israel in July 2022. This is a four percentage increase over 2019, and 71,000 visitors from the United States in august 2022. This is 13% more than 2019.

Eyal Carlin was the North American Tourism Commissioner for North America. "It is exciting to see a new rise in tourism to Israel from the United States. Already reaching the record-breaking numbers of the year 2019," he stated. "The United States is our most popular destination for tourism to Israel and prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 that was sweeping the world, we were celebrating record-breaking tourism entry numbers each month. We're so happy to see such a positive shift and expect a continued upswing for the many months and years to follow."

Not far behind in the United States, Canada is also on track to surpass its tourism numbers in Israel with 7,200 visitors in the month of July 2022 and 6,600 in August.


Gal Hana, Consul to Canada and Director for Canada at the Israel Ministry of Tourism said that it was exciting to see Canada's tourism to Israel returning. נווה פריצקי "We are close to our record 2019 numbers. We anticipate that this trend will continue to grow as Canadians are more active in traveling abroad.

Israel welcomed more tourists from around the world in the year 2019 than any other nation. 969 600 of them were Americans. Israel's official reopening for all travelers was May 2018. The country has already welcomed more than 600,400 US tourists since the time of opening.

Information on the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism(IMOT) is Israel's main tourism authority. It is accountable for promotion and marketing initiatives in order to position Israel as a popular tourist destination. IMOT is aiming to increase tourist traffic to help support the Israeli economy and also diversify and enhance visitors' experience. IMOT operates in Israel to promote the impressive variety of religious and cultural tourist attractions that are each an exceptional combination of modernity, tradition and culinary delights. North America's IMOT office locations are New York, Los Angeles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARj0i5sZlw Atlanta, Chicago, Chicago, Toronto, and Chicago.

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