Posted on 01/04/23
| News Source: i24
The number of tourists who visited the country jumped compared to the years 2020 and 2021
More than 2.67 million tourists entered Israel in 2022, compared to 397,000 arrivals recorded in 2021 and 831,000 in 2020, Israel's Tourism Ministry announced on Wednesday.
An encouraging figure compared to the two years of the Covid pandemic, the number remains however much lower than 2019, during which 4.6 million tourists had visited the Jewish state.
"The skies in Israel were not officially reopened to tourists until March 2022 and without any restrictions three months later, in May," the Tourism Ministry said.
The volume of inbound tourism to Israel this year is around 41 percent lower than the record year of 2019. The amount of inbound tourism revenue for 2022 is estimated at more than $3.8 billion without counting tourism spending on flights with Israeli companies, compared to more than $6 billion in 2019.