(Institute for National Security Studies-Tel Aviv University) Shmuel Even and Sason Hadad - While global tourism between 2007 and 2018 increased 60%, tourism in Israel in the same period rose 100% - to 4.1 million tourists annually. The scale of tourism is a gauge of Israel's attractiveness and the normalization of Israel's relations with various countries. The dramatic increase in tourism, despite the security situation and the BDS phenomenon, may attest both to tourists' sense of security in Israel and to the failure of BDS.
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