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. Furthermore, the number of employees serving in restaurants and hotels swelled markedly over the years, whilst 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 proportion 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.
Regarding the two other areas of employment, the numbers of those involved in sport and leisure services as well as travel and tours were quite similar during the first five years, at around 800. By 2009, however, both categories experienced a downward trend, with their respective figures falling to lows of 700 and 400.