The line graph illustrates the number of travellers visiting the United Kingdom with three distinctive purposes from 1989 to 2009. Regardless of their aims, the categorical and overall visitors of the UK increased within a 20-year span.
People were tempted to visit the UK for holiday rather than business, as 9 million visitors for leisure compared to 7 million of the other reasons in the year 2009. Firstly, holiday travellers dramatically fluctuated between the years, which gradually rose from 6 million in 1989, peaked at 9.5 million in 1989, significantly dropped again to 7 million in 2004, and stood at 9 million in the ultimate 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 travellers 2 million.
There were only a few individuals coming to the UK to visit their friends and family from the start; however, this number grew impressively, reached 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 purpose becoming the least frequent when one comes to the UK.
In conclusion, travellers visiting the UK for holiday accounted for the immersive proportion, followed by business travellers, though still experienced fluctuation. And people who came to the UK for their intimates still remained the lowest throughout the time.