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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. The country welcomed 78,000 visitors from the United States for July 2022. This represents a 4% rise over 2019, and 71,000 visitors from the United States for August 2022. This represents an increase of 13% over 2019.

נווה פריצקי Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner. He said, “It’s so exciting to witness a further increasing number of tourists visiting Israel from America, which is already exceeding or even surpassing the record-breaking numbers we saw in 2019”. “The United States has been our largest destination for tourism to Israel that is inbound. Before the COVID-19 outbreak, we were celebrating record number of Israeli tourism entries every month.

Canada is also on track, just like the United States, to surpass its tourist arrivals into Israel. In July 2022, Canada had 7,200 visitors while August was a record 6,000.

Gal Hana, Consul to Canada and Director of Canada at the Israel Ministry of Tourism stated that it was thrilling to see the Canadian tourism industry to Israel returning. “We are near our record-setting numbers in 2019. We expect that this trend will continue as Canadians are more active in traveling abroad.

Israel welcomed more tourists from all over the world in the year 2019 than any other nation. 969 600 were Americans. Israel’s official reopening to travellers from May 2018. The country has already received over 600,400 US tourists since the time of opening.

Information about the Israel Ministry of Tourism

The Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT), Israel’s tourism agency is in charge of planning and implementing marketing and promotional initiatives to position Israel as a top destination. IMOT is aiming to increase the number of tourists visiting Israel and improve and diversify the tourist experience. IMOT promotes Israel’s incredible array of cultural, religious, culinary, and historical tourist attractions that are each a wonderful blend of modernity and tradition. North America’s IMOT office locations are in New York, Los Angeles. Atlanta, Chicago, Chicago, Toronto, and Chicago.

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