The line chart illustrates how many abroad visitors who came to the UK for different purposes from 1989 to 2009
Overall, there were upward trends in the number of people came to the UK in 20 year-period. Notably, people who came to this nation for holiday reasons was most popular.
In 1989, the number of oversea visitors came to the UK for holiday purposes stood at almost 6.5 millions people, which was the highest figure among all categories. This was followed by the figure for business reasons at 5.5 millions of visitors, which was 2 millions people more than that of ones that visit to friends or relatives.
Thereafter, those who came to the UK for holiday increase remarkably to 9 millions in 2009 after reaching the highest point at 9.5 millions people in 1998 and dropping to 7.5 millions in 2004. Similarly, the figure for business purposes witnessed a slight rise to 7 millions of people at the end of period after which a decrease to 4 millions was recored in 1992. Otherwise, a gradual growth to 7 millions of people was seen in the number of visitors visited their relatives before declining to 6 millions in 2009.