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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 19:58 |
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The World Travel Market (WTM), a major tourism fair opening this week (10-13 November) in London, aims to keep tourism in a ‘business as usual' mode. The WTM tourism fair is attended by some 6,000 participants from 190 countries. Israel will ...[read more] |
| A reader from England recently wrote in and, after mentioning how much he loved Eilat when visiting here in the past, said that Eilat is sadly lacking from British tourism brochures.
Over 140,000 British tourists have visited Israel so far this year, an increase of 13% from the same period last year, Eilat Today does not have figures on how many came to Eilat.
Israel's Tourism Minister is busily working to promote all parts of Israel, each for its unique qualities of tourism interest, and results are beginning to be seen. Eilat is up from 4 charters a week to 18 this year, the most since before the second Intifada. But now a new threat to tourism looms: the global financial crisis.
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The World Travel Market (WTM), a major tourism fair opening this week (10-13 November) in London, aims to keep tourism in a ‘business as usual’ mode. The WTM tourism fair is attended by some 6,000 participants from 190 countries. Israel will have a delegation also, including travel agents, tourism agency directors, and managers of hotels and airlines. The Minister of Tourism, Ruhama Avraham-Belila, feels that creativity and emphasis of what is beautiful and unique in Israel, rather than just what the news shows, can help swing the balance. Thus, the Israeli pavilion at the WTM fair will raffle off holiday deals to Israel each day, offer spa treatments for visitors, and even try for a Guinness Book of World Records sized humus dish. I wonder if it comes with or without ‘schoog’ [highly spicy pepper paste]? |
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