216,400 overseas vacationers visited Israel throughout April, the Central Bureau of Statistics stories, because the nation’s tourism business begins the lengthy, laborious street to restoration. This determine compares with 413,000 in April 2019, earlier than the Covid pandemic decimated worldwide tourism.
In all of 2021 solely 402,300 vacationers visited Israel, whereas 887,100 vacationers got here in 2020 after a document yr in 2019 when 4.5 million overseas vacationers got here to Israel. The nation was closed to overseas vacationers from mid-March 2020, apart from guests with particular permission to enter, as a result of Covid pandemic, re-opening briefly in November 2021, earlier than closing once more in December 2021 as a result of unfold of the Omicron variant.
Israel reopened to fully-vaccinated overseas vacationers on January 9, 2022 and to all overseas vacationers on March 1. In January 46,700 guests entered Israel, 90,400 in February, and 168,900 in March. In whole 522,400 overseas vacationers entered Israel within the first 4 months of 2022.
In April 2022, 685,600 Israelis traveled overseas, the Central Bureau of Statistics stories, approaching the pre-Covid stage of 798,700 in April 2019. The Passover vacation fell in April in each 2022 and 2019. In March and April 2022, 1.2 million Israelis traveled overseas in contrast with 1.4 million in 2019.
In 2019, Israelis made a document 9.2 million abroad journeys however this determine fell to 1.5 million in 2020 and three million in 2021.
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