November 2024
Yossi Fatael, the CEO of the Israel’s Incoming Tour Operators Association, says that “Inbound tourism doesn’t happen overnight. And today in front of our colleagues abroad, there is interest, and they are waiting for us. Incoming tourism will take time to recover. Let’s take the Corona virus for example. It took her a year and a half, or even almost two years to recover”. “The first half of 2025 seems already lost to us”,
says Fatael and adds: “but if peace breaks out here in the next month or two, then we will have to start restoring tourism. They will be available, so we can restore tourism. But in my estimation, it will be at least two whole years, from the moment the crisis ends, until we return to some sort of sanity and normality”. “One of the most difficult problems we will have the day after, for example, is that we will not have
employees. The government and the Minister of Tourism, fortunately Haim Katz - who saved about a thousand workers, by obtaining the support of 70 million ILS, because we are saving a thousand workers with zero income. As said, we don’t have businesses without employees and it’s not employees that can be recruited, after the crisis like any other business. These are employees with a lot of experience, connections,
“The first half of 2025 seems already lost to us”, says Fatael and adds: “but if peace breaks out here in the next month or two, then we will have to start restoring tourism.”
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