The two figures give information about money spent by tourists and their intention to visit the UK. The line graph illustrates the total amount of money spent by them, between the year 1980 and 2010, while the pie chart gives breakdown of the reasons for travel in the year 1980 and in 2010.
Overall, it can be seen that the expenditure of tourists follows an increasing trend with some considerable fluctuations. In 1980, foreigners were spending about 8000 million pounds in the country. Subsequently, this number showed a gradual decrease for a couple of years hitting the all time low, and then increased sharply until 1985 where it crossed the 9000 million mark. Then, there were minor variations for more than half a decade, when suddenly the amount surged to 12000 million in the year 1995. After 1995, tourist spending varied frequently and finally settled just above 10500 million pounds by 2010.
With regards to the purpose of visit, holiday was the primary reason for visit in 1980 with 44.1% and was still the major reason in 2010 at 39.1%, whereas miscellaneous reasons accounted for the lowest percentage of backpackers in both the years, 16.6% and 9.8% in 1980 and 2010 respectively. Proportion of travellers visiting for business (22.8%) was outnumbered by ratio of people visiting their friends or relatives (20.7%) in 2010, despite the converse being true three decades before.