Band 9: The line graph below shows the number of annual visits to Australia by overseas residents. The table below gives information on the country of origin where the visitors came from. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information given. Write at least 150 words.

The offered line graph demonstrates how many international tourists visited Australia from 1975 to 2005, while the table depicts the breakdown of the change in the number of visitors in 6 countries. In general, it can be observed that the trend witnessed a significant growth in the total number of visitors during this time period, whereas Japan ranked first.

To be more specific, Australia recorded approximately 8.8 million foreign visitors in 1975, while Japan was larger than South Korea, with 3.2 million for the former and 2.9 million for the latter. Meanwhile, China, the USA, Britain and Europe had similar levels of tourists, which were between 0.3 to 1.1 million each.

In the investigated period, Japan’s data surged to 12 million, and it came top in the total number of visitors. The number of South Korea’s tourists passed through a drastic rise to 9.1 million. At the same time, Europe’s data also rocketed, accounting for 4.5 million foreign visitors. A contrasting pattern can be evidenced in that of China, USA and Britain, increasing by 0.5 to 1 million visitors.