Band 6+: The bar chart below shows the number of tourists in three nations who traveled to New Zealand in 1999 and 2009. The graph below shows the number of tourists who spent their holiday in two different ways. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The bar chart compares the quantity of travelers traveled to New Zealand from the UK, the US and Japan in 1999 and 2009, the line graph compares different styles of how travelers spent their holiday over a ten-year period.

Overall, it is evident that significantly more British travelers visited New Zealand in 2009. We can also see that backpacking was getting more and more popular.

According the bar chart, The volume of British travelers and American travelers were similar in 2009, both far below the number of Japanese visitors (1.45million). The number of British tourists grew between 1999 and 2009, ranking first at 1.6million by the end of the period. There was a rapid increase in the quantity of American visitors, while a decrease was recorded in the amount of Japanese travelers.

Looking at the line graph, backpacking was increasingly popular among the tourists. In 2009, resorts travelers was fivefold that of backpackers. The number of resorts travelers reached a plateau of approximately 2.35 million by 2004, after which began to decline. In contrast, there was a surge in the volume of backpackers. At the end of the period, the figure for two distinct holiday styles crossed over, the amount of resorts travelers and backpackers equals to each other at 1 million.