ITN - ISRAEL TRAVEL NEWS - March 2022

TOURISM IN ISRAEL

March 2022

MINISTER OF TOURISM AND US AMBASSADOR

TO ISRAEL COMMIT TO TOURISM The Minister of Tourism, Yoel Razvozov, talked with the US Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Thomas R. Nides

HISTORICAL TOURISM AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Thanks to the agreement: jobs will be added, businesses will be opened and the livelihoods of the tourism industry workers will improve

T he Minister of Tourism, Yoel Razvozov, to the US Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Thomas R. Nides: “We will work to promote joint tourism packages to the US – Israel – and the countries of the Abrahamic Agreement”. In an online meeting held between the Minister of Tourism Yoel Razvozov and the US Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Tomas R. Nides, both sides raised issues concerning the return of tourism and the development of Israeli-US political relations with other countries. Minister of Tourism Razvozov discussed with the US Ambassador Nides, among other things, the

issue of entry and exit of recoverers from COVID-19 and also family tourism with children, cooperation between the Abrahamic countries to promote combined tourism packages to the US - Israel - Abrahamic countries and normalization countries such as Morocco, Jordan and Egypt. In the meantime, it was agreed in the conversation to establish a joint Israeli- American professional working team to promote joint marketing ventures in the field of tourism. In addition, it was agreed on cultural meetings and acquaintances of the countries of the region here in Israel, led by the US Embassy.

M inister of Tourism – Yoel Razvozov and Head of the Tourism Council of the United Arab Emirates, Minister of Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium-Sized Businesses – Ahmad Balhol, signed a tourism cooperation agreement between the countries. The matter will not be an obstacle in building the common and precious new reality for all of us”. The agreement signed yesterday (Tuesday) in Dubai between the Minister of Tourism – Yoel Razvozov and the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium-Sized Business – Dr. Ahmad Belhul al-Palasi, is another step in strengthening the political and business relations between Israel and the Emirates.

According to the agreement, the two countries will encourage mutual tourism, promote joint packages to preferred and remote tourism markets, train tourism workers and hotels, and help each other with knowledge related to tourism. For Israel, this is a tremendous opportunity to bring billions of shekels a year into the Israeli economy. This is through operations that will direct some of the tourists from the airports in the Emirates, where about 100 million people move to Israel each year. Thanks to the arrival of these tourists, jobs will be added, businesses will be opened and the livelihoods of the tourism industry workers will improve.

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