The given line graph illustrates how many foreign visitors who went to the UK for three different purposes from 1980 to 2009.
Overall, it is clear that oversease visitors mainly came to the UK for the holiday. Additionally, visitor who went for busines, meeting friends and relatives and holiday purposed witnessed an upward trend.
In 1989, the visiors went to the UK in business purpose stood at 5 visitors in millions while that in meeting friends and relatives was 3.5 visitors in millions. In the next 5-year period, there was a sharp decrease by 1visitors in millions in visitors who went to the UK for business purpose, the opposite was true for that in meeting friends and relatives purpose with the gradual increased to 4.5 visitors in millions. After 5 years, the figure for business and meeting friends and relatives purpose stood at 6.5 and 5.5, respectively. From 2004 to 2009, both figure, business and meeting friends and relative purposes, rose to reached the highest point at 8 visitors in millions and 6 visitors in millions before declined remarkably to 6 visitors in millions for business purpose and meeting friends and relatives purpose.
Turning to the remaining sectors, visitors who went to the UK for holiday purpose stood at 6.5 visitors in millions before stayed remain and reach a peak at 9 visitors in millions for 5-year period, starting at 1985. From 1994 to 2004, that figure experienced a considerable declined and equal to meeting friends and relatives purpose, which was stood at 6.2 visitors in millions in 2004. In the remaining period, visitor who went to UK for holiday grown remarkably from 6.5 to reached the highest point at 9 visitors in millions in 2009