The four pie charts show the reasons for travel to the UK through the information of four airports called Gatwick, Heathrow, Luton and Stansted in 2016.
Overall, it is clear that visiting friends or family become the dominant sector at two out of four airports in 2016, while holiday made up the highest proportion in Gatwick Airports. Traveling for business contributed almost fairly at all four airports, as the other reasons had the lowest number in this year.
Looking at the diagrams in more detail, in 2016, holiday had the highest percentage at Gatwick Airport, at 54%, nearly three times higher than the second rank sector named visiting friends or family, which accounted for 30%. However, this reason in Luton and Stansted Airport became the dominant sector in this year, at 50% and 49% respectively, while traveling for holiday in these airports just accounted for 35% and 36%. At Heathrow Airport, these two purposes of travel recorded nearly the same proportion, at approximately 35% each one.
Turning to business sector, only the figure at Heathrow Airport rose above 25% in 2016, as three airport remained half of that figure, at about 14% each airports. Lastly, traveling for other reasons remained under 5% at all four airports, as three out of four airports recorded 2%, and only Heathrow made up two times higher than the others, at 4%