The bar chart illustrates how the number of jobs in four different tourism-related industries in a particular UK city changed over a 20-year period, commencing in 1989.
Overall, the number of jobs in the restaurant industry increased throughout the period, whereas the reverse was true for the sport and leisure as well as travel and tour industries. Additionally, despite having accounted for the highest number in 1994, the figure the hotel industry ended the period at its initial level. Notably, the number of jobs in the travel and tour industry recorded the lowest number in most years shown.
The number of jobs in the restaurant industry was around 1,100 at the outset, which was markedly higher than that of the travel and tour industry (800). These two figures, thereafter, rose slightly in 1994, standing at approximately 1,400 and 1,050 jobs respectively. The former witnessed a moderate increase to 1,600, hitting an all-time high in 2004 before declining to about 1,250 jobs by the end of the period, while the latter decreased steadily to 400 jobs.
Conversely, there was a modest disparity between the number of jobs in the hotel as well as sport and leisure industries at the beginning, constituting nearly 1,100 and 900 jobs, respectively. The two figures followed opposite trends in 1994, accounting for roughly 1,400 and 700 jobs, in the same order. The former dropped slightly to its initial number at around 1,100 by the end of the period, while the latter remained relatively stable at about 700 jobs.