More than 24,000 tourists arrived in Israel during July, an increase of more than 50 percent over the number of tourists who arrived in the country in July 1960, it was reported here today. Last month’s visitors brought the total number of tourists since the beginning of the year to 99,208 as against some 72,000 for the corresponding period last year.
Income from tourism for the first five months of this year totaled $12,800,000, an increase of 17 percent over the tourist income for the same period last year. The figure does not include income earned by the State’s national carriers, E1 A1 Airlines and the Zim-Israel Navigation Company. Some 14,000 Israelis traveled abroad last month as compared with 11,000 in July 1960, the figures indicated.
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