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Earlier this month, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 2.18 million foreign visitors came to Israel in the first six months of the year, an increase of 19% over the same period in 2017.
The Israel Hotel Association reports that foreign tourists spent a record 5.94 million overnight stays in Israeli hotels in the first half of 2018, about 13% more than in the first half of the year. last year and 43% more than in 2016.
The data also show that about half of all stays in Israeli hotels between January and June of this year were carried out by foreign visitors and half by Israelis.
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Among the guests of the Israeli hotel, Eilat is the favorite destination, followed by the Dead Sea. In total, 34% of all overnight stays of foreign tourist hotels for the first six months of this year were spent in Jerusalem, and 24% in Tel Aviv.
The national occupancy rate of hotels for the country's 54,000 hotel rooms in the first six months was 67% – up 4% from the previous year. 39, last year. Hotels in Tel Aviv are the most popular (77%), Jerusalem (70%), Eilat (69%), Tiberias and Haifa (64%), Herzliya (62%), Nazareth (61%) and Netanya (58%). %).
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