The graph below shows the amount of overseas visitors who went to the UK for different purposes between 1989 and 2009.
Overall, initially holiday was the most popular purposes of visitors, while meeting friends and relatives was the least reason for visitors.
In the first year, holiday had a number of about 6.5 millions people, after a significant rise to 9 millions,in 2004 it experienced a sudden drop of 3.5 millions before increasing in 1998. Therefore it was followed by dramatic increasing to 9 millions and broke the visit record again in 2009. In contrast, meeting friend and relatives was initially the least amount in the start, then it experienced a constantly rise and almost threefold the number of visitors in the country, In 2009 it dramaticaly droped to 1 million people. To sum up the most popular purposes to visit UK was and remains holidays, while meeting friends and relatives was the least purposes to visit the same country at the same time.
