The bar graph compares the count of employees in four tourism-related occupations namely Restaurants, Hotels, Sport and Leisure, and Travel and Tours in a UK city from 1989 to 2009.
Overall, the most prominent feature upon looking at the bar graph is that while the employment figures for the four tourism-related sectors experienced various fluctuations, restaurants followed a clear upward trajectory, whereas sports and leisure and travel and tour both exhibited downward trends. In contrast, the hotel industry finished the period at its starting level, albeit experiencing significant volatility. Notably, Restaurant and Hotels remained its high number of labour workforces throughout the period, while Sport and Leisure,and Travel and Tour could never catch up with the two mentioned positions.
Restaurant and Hotels were the two sectors with constantly higher head counts than other fields throughout the period. At the outset, in 1989, the number of workers working in the Restaurants field topped the chart at slightly lower than 1100, closely trailed by the figure for Hotels at roughly over 1000. In the next 5 years, although both of which saw an increase in their total numbers of employees, there was a swap in the rank between those mentioned figures, given that the increase in Hotels’ employees were much more dramatic than in Restaurants with the former sharply climbed to exactly 1400, temporarily took the first position, while the latter witnessed an ascent to around 1300 in 1994, being deranked to second position. That advantage; however, disappeared in the following years, as the number of workforces participating in the Restaurants area showed a clear upward trend in the next decade, reaching its highest spot at 1600 in 2004, before experiencing a descent to around 1300 in the last years. Nevertheless, it still dominated the graph at the end of the period. In contrast to Restaurants, the figure for Hotels showed a steady decline to its initial point at slightly over 1000, holding its second rank for 10 years continuously.
Sport and Leisure, and Travel and Tours positioned themselves in the lower echelon of the graphs, given that their total number of employees were consistently low throughout the timeline. Initially, in 1989, the count of workers who work in the Sport and Leisure field led the group at approximately 900, outstripping the figure for Travel and Tours by 100. Similar to Restaurants and Hotels, there was a position swap between the two mentioned areas, in which Sport and Leisure hit its bottom at around 700, being surpassed by Travel and Tours which peaked at over 1200. Again, that advantage did not last long, as the figure for Sport and Leisures saw a sudden increase and hit its highest point at around 1050, while the other decreased to approximately 800, which the former overtook the latter in 1999. During the next decade, both figures exhibited a gradual downtick trajectory with Sport and Leisures being higher than Travel and Tours throughout the period. Eventually, Sport and Leisure, and Travel and Tours fell to its lowest value at around 700 and 400, respectively in 2009. After 20 years, all the jobs in the tourism-related industries still remained the same pecking order with its starting point in 1989.