The bar chart illustrates the number of tourism-related jobs in a specific city in the United Kingdom over the course of 20 years, starting from 1989.
Overall, there was an upward trend in the amount of employment generated by the tourism-related Restaurants industry, as opposed to the data for Sport and leisure, as well as Travel and tours. Meanwhile, how many people work in Hotels witnessed a little change. In addition, Restaurants registered the highest figure for most of the given period, which peaked at 2004.
Looking first at the Restaurants and Sport & leisure, the number of people employed in tourism-related industries in the former stood at around 1,100 in 1989, which displayed a steady increase to hit a peak of 1,600 between 1989 and 2004. Thereafter, the number of tourism-related jobs remarkably decreased by 300 at the end of the period. Meanwhile, there was some fluctuation in the figure of how many people work in Sport & leisure throughout the period, starting at about 900 and ending at 700.
Turning to the remaining industries, in the first year of the period, the amount of employment generated by the tourism-related Hotels industry was approximately 1.3 times the data for Travel & tours, at about 1,050 and 800, respectively. The period between 1989 and 1994 saw a dramatic rise to peak at exactly 1,400 in 1994, followed by a consistent decline to above 1,000 at the end of the period. In the meantime, a moderate growth to hit about 1,050 was witnessed in the number of people employed in the tourism-related Travel & tours sector in 1994, followed by a stable fall to bottomed at exactly 400 in 2009.