The bar chart compares the statistical information about the number of tourists from Europe, US and Canada, China, 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 figures in 2007 were higher than that in 2008, and most of the tourists who came to this country in both years were Chinese and Japanese. The hotel and resort field experienced the most noticeable decrease in its income, while the other sectors involved in tourism’s falls were less significant.
A large number of people visiting X country came from China and Japan, with 3 million people in 2007 and about 2 million in 2008. A similar decline though less significant was seen in the data set of Australia in which the figure dropped to 2,5 million tourists to country X in 2008. There were fewer European, US, and Canadian tourists coming to this country in both years presented, falling to less than 1000.
In terms of the 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 accounted for 3.5 million dollars in the former year, then divided its earning by 7 times in the next year . Next came the figures for restaurant, bar, and souvenir shops, transportation, and travel agent annual income, which mirror the same decrease, with only 50% to over 60% lower in 2008 (at 1.2 and 0.4 million dollars in that order). Albeit the overall decrease witnessed in the tourism industry’s annual income, tour guides, small vendors, and other services remained nearly unchanged, receiving 1.4 million dollars in 2007 and 1.1 million dollars in 2008.