Band 6+: The graph shows the number of tourists visiting the Galapagos Islands between 2015 and 2022. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. To zoom in, click on the image.

The line graph displays amount of foreigners who visited the Galapagos Islands between 2015 and 2022. When tourists visited the Galapagos Islands, they stayed two different places. Some of the visitors preferred cruise ships while others stayed on island.

To begin with, there is a plateau between 2015 and 2016 for people who stayed on island. After that, percentages of the range of 2018 and 2020 remained stable for these people. On the other hand, number of tourists who stayed on cruise ships steadily increased except between 2016 and 2017. Furthermore, the lines for two types of tourists met in the middle of 2020 with 1.4 million visitors. Also, number of foreign people was equal in 2022 for each type of visitors whereas the highest rates of tourists was in 2022 with almost 3.5 million people.

Overall, the line which points out total of tourists always soared; therefore, approximately 3.5 million people visited the Galapagos Islands in 2022.