The line graph illustrates the proportion of visitors to Scotland who visited four different attractions in Edinburgh.
Overall, the percentage of people who visited the castle and the zoo demonstrated an upward trend, whereas the proportion of those who visited the aquarium and the festival showed a downward trend. Share of festival visitors showing the highest point among other attractions at the start, then lost its leadership being outnumbered by castle visitors and the former remained the most popular attraction during the period.
Only two of demonstrated attractions, the castle and the zoo, experienced a rise in the number of visitors. Castle visitors showing 30% at the start of the period experienced a gradual increase, while the percentage of people who visited zoo fluctuated throughout the period of 1980 and 2000. The zoo being the least visited among other attractions at the start with 10%, remained the most unpopular before 2005 and reached 20% at the end showing doubled phenomenon. The Castle visitors, on the other hand, peaked at approximately 48% in 1995, showed the highest point among all three attractions.
Conversely, the aquarium and the festival experienced decrease in the number of tourists. Starting at the point of 20%, aquarium reached its highest point in 1985, while the festival experienced steady fall during the given period. Finally aquarium reached the lowest point in the 2010 among all attractions, showing lower than 10% and it is fair that the festival demonstrated insignificant change reaching roughly 25%.
