The bar chart depicts information about purpose of traveling to London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool in 2013. Overall, holiday visits are the dominant purpose of traveling to London, Edinburgh and Liverpool. Whereas the work related visits accounted for Birmingham and Manchester.
The percentage of people traveling to London for holiday was 50%, however other purposes of visiting are significantly lower, e.g business and visiting friends had roughly the same proportion close to 20%, and Miscellaneous visits was just under 10% in 2013. On the other hand Edinburgh was much more popular as a tourist destination, as much as 67% , nevertheless other forms of visits were business 10%, visiting friends 18% and miscellaneous at 2% respectively.
Regarding other cities, Birmingham was much more popular in business visits than Manchester and Liverpool, around 50% compared to 30% and 18%. In addition to that, the fraction of people visiting Liverpool for a holiday was higher,at approximately 27%, compared to Manchester 21% and Birmingham under 20%. The percentage of people visiting friends and family in Manchester and Liverpool was the same at 26% mark, but in Birmingham this number is lower at just 22% respectively. Miscellaneous visits were Liverpool just under 20%, Manchester around 15% and Birmingham above 20%.