The line graph illustrates how many visitors travelled to the UK for different purposes – business, holiday and meeting friends and relatives from 1989 to 2009.
Overall, all three figures experienced steadily growth . As you can see, most of the people went to the UK for holiday throughout, while they did not almost visit there for meeting friends and relatives over the period.
In 1989, almost 6,5 million visitors went to the UK for holiday , makes it highest than others, compared by business 5 million and meeting friends and relatives about 3,5 million. Over the next half a decade , holiday and meeting friends and relatives continued to rise reaching 8 million and 4,5 million , while business saw a slight dip to 4 million .
From 1994 to 2004 , holiday rates grew slightly reaching to 9 million. In contrast, business improved relatively, hitting to 7 million. Meeting friends and relatives surged, climbing to 6 million.
In 2004 onwards, people visiting in the UK for holiday underwent unprecedented acceleration leaping to 9 million in 2009, the highest among the three purposes. The figure for business was ascent gradually before dropping to 7 million by the end of the timeframe. Likewise, meeting friends and relatives experienced growth before dipping to above 6 million in 2009.