The line graph illustrates the number of travelers visiting the United Kingdom with three distinctive purposes from 1989 to 2009. Regardless of their aims, the three categorical visits to the UK increased within a 20-year span.
People were tempted to visit the UK for entertainment rather than business, as 9 million visitors for leisure compared to 7 million for the other reason in the year 2009. Firstly, holiday travelers fluctuated between the years, gradually rising from 6 million in 1989, peaking at more than 9 million in 1999, significantly dropping again to 7 million in 2004, and standing at 9 million in the final year. Similarly, visitors who were businessmen also had that tendency, after various up and down periods, it maintained at 7 million in 2009, lower than holiday travelers 2 million. In conclusion, travelers visiting the UK for holidays accounted for the immersive proportion, followed by business travelers, though still experienced fluctuation.
There were only a few individuals coming to the UK to visit their friends and family initially; however, this number grew remarkably, reaching the climax at 7 million in 2004 – matching the number of businessmen in the same year. This figure, repeatedly, plummeted to only 6 million in 2009, making this case becoming the least reason for visiting the UK. Consequently, people who came to the UK for seeing their intimates remained the lowest throughout the period.