The given line chart illustrate how many people travel to the UK for business, for holiday, or for gathering with their relationships from 1989 to 2009.
Overall, the number overseas visitor to the UK saw a net increase for all of three different purposes, despite erratic changes throughout. Particular striking is holiday traveler, with a highest number at both the begin and the end.
Regarding the most popular reason for travelling to UK, about 6,5 million foreigners went to the UK as their relaxing trips in the first period. Following this, it surged to hit its peak at 9 million by 1994, before starting to experience a consistent decline in the next 10 years. By 2004, after being overtaken by the number of business trip, the figure for vacation and families or friends gathering met each other at a shy of 7 million; however, this didn’t last for long. At the end of the period, these kind of visitors recovered to precisely 9 million people, far exceeding other category to again become the dominated purposes for visiting the UK.
Looking at the remaining categories with relatively similar trajectory, business is the second popular purpose for going to the UK, at 5 million visitors in 1989, 1,5 million higher than those went for meeting friends and relatives ( approximately 3,5 ). Subsequently, they shared the same statistic at 4 million people in the first few year, which is the lower point of business purpose, before exhibiting a steady increase to their peaks at 8 million for business and 7 million for meeting friends and relatives. At that time, the number of people go to the UK for works met the figure for holiday after overtaking it for about 3 years. Conversely, they both slightly declined to 7 million and 6 million, respectively, at the end of the period.