Tourism figures for the first six months of this year show an all-time high, statisticians announced Monday. The figures for January-June were 364,200–three percent higher than for the same period in 1972, the record year to date. The figure was 41 percent higher than for the parallel period last year, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported.
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