This line graph illustrates the distribution of visitors in Malaysia and Dubai, during the eight year period between 1995 and 2003.
Overall, it can be observed from the graph that more tourists visited the countries in later years than former ones. Although the numbers of tourists in Malaysia is higher than Dubai in the first seven years, the number of vacationers in Dubai surged in last two years.
It is evident from the graph that in 1995, the number of tourists in Malaysia and UAE was 100 thousand and just below 50 thousand respectively. They followed a continuous upward trend, and kept on increasing till 2000. The most striking feature is that both countries had similar number of visitors in 2001 i.e. just below 300 thousand people.
After 2001, visitors to Malaysia dipped till 2003, and the number eventually become marginal lower than 250 thousand. However, the number of vacationers in Dubai soared to 400 thousand till 2003.
