Israel to accept foreign tourists after year-long break washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Israel prepares for wave of Muslim tourists With the signing of the Abraham Accords and the opening of Emirati, Bahraini and Moroccan diplomatic missions, Israel is now preparing for an unprecedented wave of Muslim tourists.
A picture taken from the Mount of Olives on Jan. 20, 2018, shows a Muslim tourist viewing Jerusalem s Old City and the Dome of the Rock.
April 5, 2021
There are about a billion and a half Muslims in the world, yet only several thousand of them visit the holy sites in Jerusalem each year. The Abraham Accords signed in 2020 between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan constitute a tremendous opportunity to change that picture.
COVID strain fears stall green light for Israel s tourism industry to fully reopen haaretz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from haaretz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
IMTM sees big registration for virtual and physical expos
DUBAI, 27 days ago Dozens of countries have already registered for the leading tourism expo, IMTM 2021 - International Mediterranean Tourism Market - to be held this year physically and, for the first time virtually as well. Eyal Shmueli, one of the founders of the conference, said: “For an entire year, Covid-19 has shut down the economy and tourism in particular. We are the first to hold a virtual tourism expo and this June, also a physical expo, which are expected to revive the industry. All forecasts show tourism getting back into full swing in June, and senior players in the local and international industry will conclude their first deals at the expo.”
Joshua Shuman 12/20/2020
British, Danish and South African travelers forbidden entry to Israel, while some European countries also bar Britons
Starting Sunday, Israel is lighting up the entire world in red. Not in honor of Christmas later this week, but rather in dealing with the potential dangers a new variant of the COVID-19 virus may carry.
On Sunday, Israel’s corona cabinet decided that all arrivals from the UK, Denmark and South Africa will be required to move into “corona hotels” for a 14-day quarantine, or if the returning Israeli completes two negative coronavirus tests, the quarantine will be shortened to 10 days.