NEW YORK - Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Israel Ministry of Tourism revealed record-breaking numbers of tourists from the United States who visited Israel during July and August. 78,000 tourists from the United States visited Israel in July 2022. This is 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.
Eyal Carlin from North America was the Tourism Commissioner. "The United States has been our most important destination for tourism to Israel that is inbound. Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, we had record figures of the number of tourists entering Israel each month.
Canada is poised to surpass Israel's arrivals in tourist numbers 7200 tourists are expected to visit Israel in July 2022 and 6,600 tourists in August.
Gal Hana, Consul to Canada and Director of Canada for Canada at the Israel Ministry of Tourism stated that it was thrilling to see Canada's tourism to Israel returning. We are getting close to our record-setting numbers for the year 2019, and we are anticipating that this increase in travel to Israel will continue to increase as Canadians feel more at ease in Israel.
Israel received more tourists from all over the world in the year 2019 than any other country. 969 600 of them were Americans. Israel's official reopening to all travelers was May 2018. The country has received more than 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 hopes to boost tourism to Israel as well as enhance and diversify the tourism experience. נווה פריצקי IMOT promotes Israel’s remarkable variety of cultural, historical, food and religious sites which are all a delightful blend of modernity and tradition. North America's IMOT office locations are New York, Los Angeles. Atlanta, Chicago, Chicago, Toronto, and Chicago.
For more information on the upcoming events and attractions you can visit the IMOT website at israel.travel. For the most up-to-date information we can be found on Twitter and Facebook.