Band 5+: The charts below show the number of Japanese tourists travelling abroad between 1985 and 1995 and Australia's share of the Japanese tourist market. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

The bar chart outlines how many Japanese travelled abroad between 1985 and 1995 while the line graph shows Australia’s share of Japanese tourist market.

As can be seen from the illustration, around 5 million Japanese citizens travelled different countries in 1985 which kept on increasing continuously until 1990 before decreasing slightly in 1991. Furthermore, it starts to raise again from 12million in 1992 to just over 14million in 1995.

As can be seen vividly, in 1985, Australia’s share of Japanese tourist remained only 2%. Furthermore, a gradual increase was observed until 1988. In 1989 the share slow down slightly. After that raise in share was observed. This trend remain constant till 1993 which was beyond 6%. Later the percentage become equal to 6 in 1994.

Overall, the number of Japanese tourists who travelled to different foreign countries increased steadily except in 1991, and the percentage of Australia’s share of those travellers also increased each year except for 1989.