Band 6+: The graph below shows the number of overseas visitors to three different areas in a European country between 1987 and 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting this main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart illustrates three areas’ amount of overseas visitors in a European nation from 1987 to 2007.

Overall, it is clear the statistics in the graph had a same trend, which is an increase. In addition, in most of the time the number of people who visited Coast accounted to be the largest, while the figure of Lakes saw the most tremendous growth in all three types.

First, the Coast visitors was the highest in the chart with 40 thousands at the beginning. This number still rose continuosly to reach more than 65 thousands in 2007, after witnessing a drop untill 1994. The number of those who chose Mountains, remained the same in the period of 1987 and 1992, then started to increase stably to end at nearly 40 thousand people in the end of the statistics.

With the Lakes, there were about 10 thousand visitors had an interest in travelling to this part of the country. Then, in 1992 when the number went up to 20 thousands, the same amount of those Mountains visitors, it sharply bursted to 40 thousands in the next five years, surpassed the figure of the Coast after 1997 to reach a peak in 2002 with around 78 thousand visitors. Finally, it fall to under 60 thousands in the end.