01/17/2007
Tourism to Israel drop by 4.5% to 1.83 million tourists in 2006
The number of tourists entered Israel in 2006 decreased by 4.5% to 1.83 million, from 1.91 million tourists in 2005, according to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.
The first six months of 2006 showed an increase of 22% to over 1 million tourists, compare to the same period in 2005. But the outbreak of the Lebanon war in July 2006 leads to a drop of 27% in July-December to 0.76 million tourists that entered Israel.
The United States was the largest source of visitors to Israel. 494,000 tourists arrived from US in 2006, 8% more than a year earlier. 161,000 arrived from the UK, 3% more than in 2005.
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