The bar chart compares the statistical information about the number of tourists from Europe, US and Canada, China and Japan and Australia, measured in thousands, visiting country X in 2007 and 2008. The table depicts the tourism industry’s annual income in the two mentioned years.
It can be seen that the figure in 2007 is higher than that in 2008, and most of the tourists who came to this country in both years were Chinese and Japanese. Hotel and resort was the field that experienced the most noticeable decrease in its income, while the others were less significant.
In terms of the number of foreign tourists visiting the country, most of them from China and Japan, accounted for approximately 3000 and a thousand lower in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Meanwhile, the figure for the number of Australian tourists was reported to have changed the least, decreasing by around 100 throughout the sample. There were fewer European, US and Canadian tourists coming to this country in both 2 years presented, falling to less than 1000.
In terms of hospitality industry’s income in 2007 and 2008, due to the descent of the number of tourists, hotel-and-resort’s income was noticeably affected, which became 7 times lower in the latter year ( accounted for 0.5 million dollars). The figures for restaurant, bar and souvenir shops, transportation and travel agent annual income decreased less significantly, only 50% to over 60% lower in 2008 (at 1.2 and 0.4 million dollars in that order). Albeit the overall decrease which can be witnessed in the tourism industry’s annual income, tour guides, small vendors and other services remained nearly unchanged, receiving 1.4 in 2007 and 1.1 million dollars in 2008.