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NEW YORK, Sept. 8, 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. 78,000 visitors from the United States visited Israel in July 2022. This represents a 4% increase over 2019 and 71,000 tourists from the United States in august 2022. This is 13% higher than in the year 2019.

Eyal Carlin was the North American Tourism Commissioner for North America. “It is exciting to witness a second rise in tourism to Israel from the United States. Already reaching and exceeding our record-breaking number in 2019,” he stated. “The United States has been our largest destination for tourism to Israel that is inbound. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak we had been celebrating record-breaking number of Israeli tourism entries each month.

Canada with 7200 tourists visiting the country in July 2022 and 6,000 in August is not far from the United States.

Gal Hana is the Consul and Director for Canada within the Israel Ministry of Tourism. “We are not too far away from our record 2019 numbers and we anticipate that the growth in travel to Israel will continue to grow as Canadians continue to feel more comfortable traveling abroad.”

Israel has welcomed more than 4.6 million international visitors in the year 2019 including 969.600 coming from the United States. In May 2018, Israel opened its doors to all tourists, no matter whether they’re vaccination-free. Israel has already hosted more than 600,000.

Information on the Israel Ministry of Tourism

The Israel Ministry of Tourism is Israel’s national tourist agency. It develops and executes marketing and promotional actions to make Israel an ideal destination for travel. נווה פריצקי IMOT aims for increased tourist traffic to help support the Israeli economy and diversify and improve the visitor experience. IMOT promotes Israel’s amazing range of historical, cultural, culinary, religious, and culinary attractions – each a blend of traditional and modern. North America’s IMOT office locations are New York, Los Angeles. Atlanta, Chicago, Chicago, Toronto, and Chicago.

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