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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Tourists kept coming, until they didn’t — state stats
Despite the germination of the coronavirus crisis closing borders, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reports that Israel’s tourism industry was still going gangbusters up until a few weeks ago.
According to the stats, released early due to the crisis, February 2020 saw 885,000 hotel room rentals by tourists, more than the 800,000 recorded in February 2019.
Israel only began banning travelers or requiring quarantines from most places outside of east Asia starting in early March, and only locked down its borders last week.
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