The bar chart illustrates the data for UK, US and Japanese tourists traveling to Australia in two years: 1995 and 2005, while the line graph depicts the types of traveling in a period of 10 years from 1995 to 2005.
Overall, the total number of Japanese tourists traveling to Australia took the lead and followed by the figures for the UK and the US respectively. Regarding the type of travel, the number of people backpacking had a fluctuation while the number of people staying at resorts witnessed a sharply increase and reached its peak in 2005.
To commence with the number of tourists to Australia, in 1995, Japan had the highest number of people traveling to Australia at about one million and a half followed by the UK and the US at 800,000 and 500,000 correspondingly. In 2005, the number of US tourists traveling to Australia tripled and reached the same data for Japan in 1995. While the data for the US and the UK peaked at 1,500,000, that figure for Japan fell a drop to one million and no longer ranked the first position as it was in 1995.
Turning to the types of travel, the number of backpacking tourists was volatile. It hit its highest point in 2000 at nearly two and a half million then decreased to more than one million in 2005. The number of tourists staying at resorts ascended from around 400,000 in 1995 to more than one million in 2000. A notable feature is that the highest point of the number of people staying at resorts is the lowest point of the data for backpacking tourists.