The bar chart gives information about how many positions were held by people in three main spheres of the tourism sector in a British city over a period of two decades (1989-2009).
Obviously, restaurants and hotels offered the most jobs throughout the entire time frame. While the number of employees serving in this sector rose markedly over the years, the opposite trend was recorded in the areas of sport and recreation, and travel and tours.
In 1989, restaurants and hotels stood out as having provided the greatest number of jobs for the city’s inhabitants, at 1,100. By 2004, this rate had steadily climbed to a high of 1,600, before experiencing a negligible decline to about 1,550 over the following five years.
From 1989 to 2004, the number of those working in jobs related to sport and leisure remained largely stable, varying around 800. By the end of the period, however, there had been a decline to a low of 700.
In 1989, about 750 individuals were employed in the travel and tours sector. Although by 1994 this figure had reached a peak of 850, the years that followed saw a gradual decrease to over 400 in 2009.