NEW YORK - Sep. 8 2022 /PRNewswire/ The Israel Ministry of Tourism today announced new records for arrivals of tourists in Israel from the United States in July and august. 78,000 tourists from the United States visited Israel in July 2022. This represents a 4 percentage increase over 2019 and 71,000 visitors from the United States in august 2022. This is 13% more than the number of visitors in 2019.
נווה פריצקי Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner for North America. He said, "It's so exciting to once more see an increase of tourism to Israel from the United States, and already in the process of surpassing or exceeding the record-breaking numbers we saw in 2019". "The United States is our number one market for inbound tourism for Israel. נווה פריצקי Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had record numbers of tourists from Israel visiting Israel each month. We are thrilled to see an improvement in the trend and expect it to continue for many months and years."
Not far behind in the United States, Canada is in the process of surpassing the number of tourists visiting Israel with 7,200 visitors in July 2022 , and 6,000 in August.
Gal Hana (Consul and Director for Canada, Israel Ministry of Tourism) declared that "it is exciting to observe how Canada's travel to Israel is booming." https://www.themarker.com/labels/2022-09-12/ty-article-labels/00000183-31c8-d6c9-a197-79cd96360000 We are still not away from our record-setting 2019 numbers and we expect that this increase in Israel travel will continue to grow as Canadians feel more comfortable travelling across the world."
Israel hosted more than 4.6million visitors in the year 2019, of which 969,600 were from the United States. Since May that year, when Israel opened to all visitors regardless of vaccination status over 600,000.400 US visitors have visited Israel.
Information about the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT), Israel's tourism agency is responsible for preparing and implementing marketing and promotional initiatives to establish Israel as a preferred destination. IMOT aims at increasing the number of tourists visiting Israel to help boost the economy as well as diversify the tourist experience. IMOT highlights Israel's amazing range of historical, cultural, tourist attractions, culinary and religious - each a wonderful combination of tradition and modernity. The IMOT offices in North America are in New York City, Los Angeles and Atlanta.
Visit the IMOT website at israel.travel.com to find out more information about forthcoming events. נווה פריצקי Find the most up-to-date information through our social media channels on Twitter or Instagram.