The line graph illustrates the proportions of travellers visiting four distinct attractions (Aquarium, Castle, Zoo, and Festival) in Scotland between 1980 and 2010. Units are measured in percentages (%).
Overall, while castles and zoos gained popularity compared to the outset, people slowly lost interest in aquariums and festivals. Moreover, the percentage of tourists going to castles remained the highest for most of the timeline, peaking in 1995 and hugely surpassing other attraction spots in the end.
With respect to the two attractions exhibiting an overall upward trajectory, the statistics for zoos underwent fluctuations, staying within the range of 10% and 15%, before rising considerably towards the end. In the meantime, the figures for castle visits showed a significant upsurge from just about 23% to doubling that in 1995, being the only year when an attraction reached the 45% threshold, before tailing off in the second half of the surveyed period to 34%.
Regarding the two attractions that possessed the opposite trend, festivals witnessed a gradual decrease in visitors, while aquariums showed much higher drop rates. The numbers for festival visits consistently dwindled from roughly 30% to two-thirds of that over the period. On the other hand, the trajectory in aquarium visits experienced a spike in the 1980-1990 period and rose slightly to 25% in 1995 before plummeting by over 15 percentage points in 2010, ending the survey in the bottom place.