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Israeli tourist entries increase 25 pct to new record in April

Xinhua,May 10, 2018 Adjust font size:

JERUSALEM, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Israel recorded a year-on-year increase of 17 percent in tourist entries in April, reaching 408,400, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics said Wednesday.

In Jan-April, about 1.36 million tourist entries were recorded, which increases 25 percent compared with the same period last year.

Tourism revenues in April reached about 2.17 billion new shekels (about 600 million U.S. dollars). Since the beginning of the year, tourism has injected more than 7 billion new shekels (about 1.9 billion dollars) into the Israeli economy, sources from the Israeli Ministry of Tourism said.

About 238,000 of the total 408,400 tourists in April came from Europe, especially France, Germany, and Britain. The number of tourists from China in April reached 10,400 and 35,600 in Jan-April period.

"We close yet another month with a continuous increase in incoming tourism and we continue forward with this upward trend," said Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin.

"This is the result of intensive marketing activities and we witnessed an example of this just a few days ago when we hosted the events in Israel surrounding the Giro d'Italia," added Levin.

"We ran a huge marketing blitz in the target countries and we estimate that, to date, over half a billion people around the world in different countries have been exposed to it," he said. Enditem

 

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