Tourism Ministry cancels summertime marketing campaign: ‘Prices are also higher already’

Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov (Yesh Atid) does not want any person to invest far too much income on holidays this summer time. In light of the high prices for holidays in Israel, he has canceled local advertising campaigns contacting for Israelis to holiday regionally this summer time.

Lots of Israelis are deciding upon not to holiday abroad this summertime as coronavirus restrictions threaten to make journey very inconvenient. That implies they will family vacation domestically, and quite a few are complaining that resort selling prices have turn out to be way too highly-priced.

“The dilemma is that for the reason that desire for vacationing domestically is a lot better this 12 months than normal, a whole lot of rooms are presently prebooked,” Dan Resorts CEO Ronen Nissenbaum explained to The Jerusalem Submit past month. “That means the types that are listed on the web are primarily the most high priced ones.”

As a result, for case in point, an casual research on Daka90, a person of Israel’s largest travel sites, yielded just three success in Eilat for the first week of August, compared with close to 40 results for the duration of the off-time. Charges for two older people ranged from NIS 3,278 to NIS 11,965 for 3 evenings.

Field resources have suggested the public to ebook their stays at accommodations and family vacation rentals early to steer clear of lacking out. Most locations have incredibly generous refund guidelines in case of coronavirus-connected cancellations.

For this purpose, Razvozov decided not to continue on with the campaign.

“I see no level in continuing the campaign in a scenario where by the costs of holidays are so large,” he mentioned. “It is a pity to squander community revenue for this. Family vacation is not only for the abundant. I intend to act urgently to regulate the concern.”