The impact of Al-Aqsa storm on Israeli tourism

According to Webangah News quoted by Tasnim News agency, according to the statistics announced by Al-Mayadin, the tourism income of the Zionist regime was more than 5.5 billion dollars last year, which will experience a sharp downward trend this year due to the conflicts and of course the political problems in this country. According to the announced statistics, most tourists are from America, France, Germany and England.

It goes without saying that after the rocket attacks on Ben Gurion Airport Tel Aviv, Ramon and Haifa airports were also disabled and all international airlines stopped their flights to this area. Also, the aviation insurance companies canceled the insurance coverage of the companies based in this regime against the risks of war by issuing a notice. The damages of the Israeli aviation sector have so far reached about 1.6 billion dollars, which is an average of 100 million dollars per day. All these cases show the expected losses in the tourism sector of the Zionist regime, whose income reached more than 3.4 billion dollars in 2022 and has suffered about 98 million dollars in daily losses since the start of the war (New Al Arabi).

In addition, according to the statistics of the Secret Flight website, many foreign airlines, during the past days and after the beginning of the military conflict between the Palestinian resistance forces and the Zionist regime, their activities have stopped in the occupied territories and some of them have also been forced to close their offices and ask their employees to work remotely. , ” src=”https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1402/07/24/14020724142153550285737210.jpg”/>

According to Reuters, American Delta Air Lines, Norwegian Air Lines, Dutch KLM Airlines and two major American companies including United and American Airlines have canceled their flights to Tel Aviv. According to CBS, other major airlines, including Lufthansa, France, Emirates, Ryanair, Aegon Airlines and Lufthansa’s Brussels Airlines have also canceled their flights to Tel Aviv.

According to Reuters, due to the war in the Gaza Strip and the cancellation of most flights to and from Tel Aviv, tourist traffic in Israel last October decreased by 76% year-on-year.

According to the monthly report of Israel Statistics Authority, 89.7 thousand tourists traveled to Israel in October, most of them arrived before the seventh day of the same month (before the start of Al-Aqsa storm operation). had become Zionist regime.

According to the tourism center of the occupying Zionist regime, foreign tourists to Israel exceeded 370 thousand people in the same period last year. It shows the amount of damage caused to that part as a result of Hamas’ “Storm of Al-Aqsa” operation on the settlements and the subsequent Israeli war against Gaza.

Since the end of the coronavirus pandemic, Israel has run advertising campaigns for visits in an attempt to return to 2019 numbers, which were not broken until the end of 2022, according to Israeli census data. Earlier, a report by the flight-tracking website Secret Flights showed an average drop of 80 percent at Ben-Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv since the war began.

Author: Gholamreza Mobaraki

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