277,700 guests entered Israel in September 2022 together with 28,000 who left the nation on the identical day, the Central Bureau of Statistics studies. This determine is down 39% from the file variety of 436,500 guests in 2019, earlier than the Covid pandemic. The September determine is disappointing for a month wherein many Diaspora Jews historically go to the nation for the vacations and Israel’s tourism restoration lags behind the worldwide common which exceeded 60% of pre-Covid numbers in July.
Restrictions on the entry of international vacationers into Israel have been solely totally eliminated in March and the Ministry of Tourism expects the variety of guests to Israel in 2022 to be within the 2.2 million to 2.5 million vary, effectively under the 2019 file of 4.55 million.
Between January and September 2022, 1.8 million guests got here to Israel in contrast with 3.5 million in January-September 2019.
In distinction, the variety of Israelis touring overseas has already exceeded the 2019 pre-Covid file. In September 2022, 967,100 Israelis traveled overseas, the Central Bureau of Statistics studies, up from the earlier file of 928,900 in September 2019.
Between January and September 2022, Israelis made 2,096,600 journeys overseas in contrast with 2,380,400 in January-September 2019.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on October 13, 2022.
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