The line and table graphs compare the UK residents in term of their number of trips to other nations for different purposes between 1989 and 2001.
Overall, trips for holiday purposes among the people was far more prevalent, remaining predominant throughout the period in question, while the remaining trip purposes experienced a noticeable decrease – business, family visits, and unspecified purposes, with the holidays and family visits remaining as only categories that increased. Additionally, the highers number of flights could be seen in 1998.
Initially, within 47 million flights in 1989, trips for holidays led the pack with a peack of 30 million travellers, a figure that skyrocketed to a whooping 50 million in 1989, a year when around 74 million flights established – the highest number compared to other years. This fugure, however, was short-lived as by the end of the period, it levelled of at just below 40 million, when the the volume of flights made up 61 in the final year.
As for other counterparts: trips for business and unspecified purposes started the period with the respective figures of around 8 and 4 million, while it was only trips dedicated for family trips that hovered at 5 million until 1992. By 2001, family visitors outnumbered with just above 10 million, while the trips for other purposes dipped to about 3 million while business trips ended the period with its initial figures (8).
The highest volume of flights, around 74 million was experienced in 1998, followed in distance by 1995 with 68 million. During other remaining years, these figures were ranged between around 47-61 million trips.