Band 6+: The graph below gives information about international tourist arrival in different parts of the world. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph provides information on number of tourist that arrived in various areas of the world.

Overall, it is clear that the number of tourists of all countries show an upward trend with different levels of increase. North America ranked first throughout the period, while Central and eastern Europe witnessed the highest increase in term of arrivals. Sub-sabaran Africa and South America were areas with lower numbers of visits, which changed their ranks by the end of the period.

In 1990, 70 mln visitors arrived to North America, this number increased steadily to about 90 million. Despite the decline to about 85 million, it experienced last 5 years, it had been the highest by the end of the period. Starting with 30 million, the nimber of people who visited Central and Eastern Europe rose gradually to about 84 million, just a little bit lower than former area.

Sub-saharan Africa and South America had the lowest number of visitors, stood at approximately 7 and 8 million, respectively. Both figures showed an increase, with former, which surpassed the later, at 20 million, while the later reached 18 million. South East Asia had 30 million visitors, a steady increase to 50 million was shown by this figure.