{"id":120764,"date":"2018-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/israel-was-visited-by-over-2-million-tourists-in-the-first-six-months-of-this-year\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:54:21","slug":"israel-was-visited-by-over-2-million-tourists-in-the-first-six-months-of-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/israel-was-visited-by-over-2-million-tourists-in-the-first-six-months-of-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel was visited by over 2 million tourists in the first six months of this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In the first six months of this year, over 2.1 million tourists visited Israel, with the number of tourists recording a 19% increase compared to the same period last year, when 1.74 million tourists visited Israel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The number of foreign tourists in Israel will increase considerably in 2018. \u201eRomania is the second most important country in the region, after Poland. We estimate that this year we will exceed 120,000 Romanian tourists,\u201d stated Ami Alon, representative of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The number of weekly flights from Romania to Israel reached 64 in 2018, compared to 23 flights in 2015.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The total number of foreign tourists who visited Israel in 2017 reached a record level of 3.6 million, an increase of 25% compared to 2016.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall-street.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Wall-Street<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many tourists visited Israel in the first half of 2018?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 2.1 million tourists visited Israel in the first six months of 2018, representing a 19% increase compared to the same period in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the importance of the Romanian market for Israeli tourism?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romania is the second most important country in the region for Israeli tourism, with an estimated 120,000 Romanian visitors expected in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has air connectivity between Romania and Israel improved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flight frequency has nearly tripled, growing from 23 weekly flights in 2015 to 64 weekly flights in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first six months of this year, over 2.1 million tourists visited Israel, with the number of tourists recording a 19% increase compared to the same period last year, when 1.74 million tourists visited Israel. The number of foreign tourists in Israel will increase considerably in 2018. \u201eRomania is the second most important country&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-120764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120764"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=120764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}