Israel’s tourism industry is still mired in a slump that began with a series of terrorist attacks two years ago, according to an official of the Israel Hotel Association. Meanwhile, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released figures putting average hotel occupancy rates at 52.8 percent during the first four months of 1998, compared to 59.3 percent during the same period in 1997 and 67.7 percent in 1996.
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