NEW YORK - Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Today the Israel Ministry of Tourism has announced record-breaking figures of tourists from the United States who visited Israel during the months of July and August. Israel welcomed 78,000 American tourists during July 2022. It was a four percent increase over the year before and 71,000 tourists from the United States visited Israel in August 2022. Eyal Carlin from North America was the Tourism Commissioner. https://www.israelhayom.co.il/mumlazim/article/13057097 "The United States is our most important market for Israel's inbound tourism. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw record-breaking numbers of tourists from Israel visiting Israel every month. We are thrilled to see such a positive shift, and we expect it to continue for a long time." Not far behind the United States, Canada is in the process of surpassing the number of tourists visiting Israel by 7,200 tourists in the month of July 2022 and 6000 in August. Gal Hana, Consul for Canada and Director of the Israel Ministry of Tourism declared that "it's so exciting to witness how tourism in Canada is recovering." We're not too far from our record numbers in 2019, and we are hoping that this surge in Israel travel will continue to increase as Canadians feel more comfortable travelling across the world."
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