The line chart mentioned above compares and contracts the data about international tourist numbers surveyed in three various locations – the coast, the mountains, and the lakes in a nation in Europe over a twenty-year period from 1987 to 2007, measured in thousands of people.
Overall, it can be seen that the number of visitors for the coast and that of tourists for the lakes increased, while the tourist figures for the mountains fluctuated during the entire period.
Firstly, when the mountains are taken into consideration, it can show that visitors for this site fluctuated according to time. Specifically, at the beginning in 1987, the destination attracted 20 thousand people, but while in twenty years later, it achieved to 35 thousand people, a great disparity of 15 thousand people. In addition, during the given period, the mountain visitor figures reached the peak of approximately 40 thousand people.
On the other hand, looking at the coast, we can recognize that despite during survey periods, the number of tourists in the area are grew steadily, there was a slightly reduced of five thousand people over a five-year period from 1987 to 1992. In 1987, it only reached to 40 thousand people. However, at the end of period, it grew significantly to nearly 75 thousand people, the differences of almost 2 times. Similar to the coast, the lakes ” witnessed ” a rise. Specially, within 15 years from 1987 to 2002, this statistics soared sharply from 10 thousand people to grow to 75 thousand people. But, in the last five years, it decrease sharply has just 50 thousand people.