While first graph shows the number of tourists who visited the UK and who traveled from that country between 1979 and 1999 , the table delineates information on the most preferred destinations of british people throughout the same timeline.
Overal, the inner tourism was not as widespread in the UK as the outer tourism, and the growth of the latter was much more pronounced. Additionally, France and Spain were the UK residents’ top-choice when traveling abroad.
Interestingly, if in 1979, the difference in the number of visits to and from the country was only about 3 million, by the end of the timeframe, it became considerably greater, by a somewhat staggering 25 million. Both categories, though, exhibited similar steady rise patterns until the mid 1980s, after which abroad traveling observed an increase of 10 million in only three years; nevertheless, later, that soaring started to steadily decrease. The number of visits to the UK underwent through a much gradual rise, growing slightly more than 10 million in twelve to thirteen years.
France and Spain each accounted for more than 9 millions of british tourists, being the most popular foreign destinations at the time. Next, the USA was visited by up to 4 million UK tourists, which was higher, approximately, by one million than the Greece’s numbers and by about two million than the Turkey’s data.