The line graph delineates the amount of spent by UK citizens on travelling abroad from 1993 to 2013.
Looking from an overall perspective, holidays accounted for the highest amount of spending, and this figure increased dramatically until 2008. Other activities showed an erratic pattern throughout the given period.
People who visited different country for holiday spent 9 billion $ in 1993, and this figure increased slightly to 12 billion $ in 1998. Then it peaked to about 25 billion $ in a decade, before declining to a little above 21 billion $ in 2009. Holiday spending remained stable for a period at about 22 billion $, and started sharp increase to 24 billion in 2013.
The other three purposes of visit are much lower in number compared to holidays. They showed mildly increase and decrease throughout the period. Business trip began the period with a just below 3 billion $, and it presented a rise with occasional fluctuations to nearly 5 billion $ in 2008. Afterward it decreased slightly, and approximately levelled out at roughly 4 billion $. Visit friends or relatives and other purposes presented similar pattern between 1993 and 2000. In 1993, they had about 1 and 0,5 billion $ spend, respectively, and these figures climbed by around 1 billion in 2000. After visiting of friends or relatives caught up to business visiting, increased to 4 billion at the end of the period, while miscellaneous fluctuated between 2000 and 2007, after it finished at nearly 2 billion $.