The bar chart compares the number of holiday-makers who travelled to Australia from three nations, over a 10-year period, beginning in 1995, while the line graph illustrates the preferred types of trips.
Overall, the number of tourists who came from the UK and the US increased over the years, while Japan showed an opposite trend. Although people were more interested in staying at resorts in the initial five years, this tendency decreased steadily over the rest of the period. Notably, the demand for backpacking trips surged year by year.
Looking at Japan was the dominant country in 1995 with 1.4 million people and this figure fell to one million after a decade. As for the number of tourists from the UK and the US accounted for 0.8 million and almost 0.43 million in 1995, both reaching one million in 2005.
Resort-based holidays stood at around 1.7 million people, while it witnessed a significant growth, rising to 2.5 million by 2000 and showed a downward trend until 1.3 million in 2005. Considering the backpacking type was opted for by 0.4 million visitors in the initial year while it saw a consistent growth until 2005, reaching 1.1 million.