The chart illustrates how much immigrants visited the UK, in millions of visitors, for three different reasons from 1989 and 2009.
Overall, rises can be observed in all three categories, with holiday being the most popular purposes overtime. It is also important to note that the rank in this graph remained unchanged during the period.
Looking first at the number of visitors came to the UK for holiday, this started at just over 6, and increased significantly to a peak of nearly 10 in 1999, which was also the highest figure in the whole chart. Then, it witnessed a period of fluctuation, before ending at 9.
Moving to those who immigrated for business purposes, about 5 million of people went to the UK with this reason in 1989. Not until 1994 did this figure decline rapidly to 4, which met that of the visit to friends or relatives categories. Then, it made a strong recovery, nearly reaching that of holiday, before decreasing slightly to finish the period at 7.
Regarding the remaining category, this recorded the lowest figures. Despite starting at just under 4, which is far smaller than the others, the number of people immigrated to the UK to visit friends and relatives saw the most dramatical rise of more than 3 million by 2004, reaching that of business in the same year. However, this figure experienced a slight fall to around 6 at the five final years.