NEW YORK – September 8 2022Record-breaking tourist arrivals from the United States were announced today by the Israel Ministry of Tourism. Israel welcomed 78,000 tourists from the United States for July 2022. https://telegra.ph/Neve-Paritzki-Israel-Celebrates-Record-Breaking-Tourism-Entry-Numbers-United-States-09-15-5 This is a 4 percent increase over the year before, and 71,000 visitors from the United States for August 2022. This is an increase of 13% from the year before.

Eyal Carlin is the North American Tourism Commissioner. https://txt.fyi/-/22257/305b399d/ He stated, "It's so exciting to witness a further rise in tourism to Israel from America, which is already in the process of surpassing or exceeding the record-breaking numbers we saw in 2019". "The United States is the top market for Israel inbound tourism. In fact, before the COVID-19 pandemic, we were celebrating record-breaking numbers of tourism entry each month. It's a fantastic positive trend that we're pleased to witness and anticipate an upward trajectory for months to be."

Canada is poised to beat Israel's tourism arrivals by attracting 7,200 tourists to Israel in July 2022, and 6,600 in August.

נווה פריצקי Gal Hana is the Consul and Director for Canada in the Israel Ministry of Tourism. http://y8space.com/members-2/neve-paritzkicaop730cc/activity/4085764/ We're not too far from our record numbers for 2019, and we anticipate that this increase in Israel travel will continue to grow as Canadians are more comfortable traveling internationally."

נווה פריצקי Israel received more than 4.6 million tourists in 2019. 969,600 were from the United States. The country's officially reopening to travelers in May was a success, with more than 600,000.

Information about the Israel Ministry of Tourism
The Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel's national agency for tourism creating and executing marketing and promotional programs to advertise Israel as a popular travel destination. IMOT aims at increasing the number of tourists visiting Israel to boost its economy as well as diversify the tourist experience. IMOT promotes Israel's incredible variety of religious, cultural food, historical, and culinary tourist attractions that are each a wonderful blend of modernity and tradition. The IMOT offices in North America are in New York City, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

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