The given graph illustrates the number of foreign tourist arrivals in five regions of the world from 1990 to 2005. Overall, it can be seen that a greatest increase of those visitors was North America and Central and Eastern Europe, while South America experienced the lowest growth rate.
In 2005, North America and Central and Eastern Europe were top two regions in term of tourists’ number, with different rate increase. North America received over 70 million foreign visitors in 1990, after which it rose to its peak at around 90 million then dropped to 85 million in 2005. Meanwhile in Central and Eastern Europe the number of travelers started as a half of North America approximately 30 million but reached the same level afterward in 2005.
Conversely, the number of tourists in South-East Asia steadily increased from 20 million but still under 50 million. Simultaneously, the two fewest number of visitors at almost 10 million: Sub-Saharan Africa and South America, gradually rose at the same rate in 1990 to 1995. However, there was a greater increase in tourists going to Sub-Saharan Africa than to South America.