The charts present data about the main reasons for travelling by UK residents as well as their favourite destinations from 1994 to 1998. Overall, the main reasons for Britons to travel during this period were holiday making, business and visits to friends and relatives. Western Europe was their favourite destination.
As the data suggests, the number of holidaymakers steadily increased. In 1994, the number of holiday seekers was around fifteen thousand, and it grew to over twenty thousand in 1998. Moreover, the number of people travelling for business also gradually increased, from just over three thousand in 1994 to approximately four thousand four years later. Finally, visiting abroad for meeting friends and relatives showed a steady increase till 1997, when more than one thousand British visited abroad for that reason. All the reasons combined, more than twenty thousand British travelled abroad in 1994 and this number grew by almost nine thousand in just four years.
In addition, Western Europe was the favourite destination of those travellers as nearly eighteen thousand travelled to this destination in 1994 while the rest, nearly four thousand, went to other places. North America seemed the second most common destination for those travellers during this period.