Israel's hotels eye foreign tourists and wonder: If we open, will they come?
Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. The Hotel Montefiore in Tel Aviv turned its parking lot into an outdoor dining space during the coronavirus summer season, July 2020 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel) With Israel set to open its doors to tourists in May, local hotels are finally getting all their rooms ready after a year that has devastated the travel industry. But many are wondering, will anybody actually come? “We hope our clientele will return, because we’ve always been about our regular visitors,” said Oren Schnabel of Tel Aviv’...
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