Band 6+: The table and graph below show the number of international tourists and the income of tourism in four countries in East Asia from 2000 to 2014.

The table and line chart compare the tourists’ number and income in Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan between 2000 to 2014.

Overall, the number of international tourists across the four countries had increased in the four given years. Meanwhile, each four countries’ tourism revenue had been constantly rising throughout the period.

In 2000, Thailand had 9.5 million tourists, ranked first, followed by Singapore at 7.7 million, South Korea had 5.3 million and Japan had merely 4.8 million. This rank, however, was changed in 2005 as Japan’s figure surpassed the number of South Korea with 6.7 million and 6.0 million respectively. In 2010, the rank had altered back to the same sequence in 2000 and remained until 2014 since the visitors in South Korea is slightly more than the corresponding figure of Japan.

Turning to the line graph, except Japan had the figure slightly lower than 5 billion, the tourism revenue of Thailand, Singapore, and South Korea were all sequentially ranked between 5 billion to 10 billion in 2000. The sequence was as same as the sequence of the number of international tourists in 2000. Although remained unchanged in ranking throughout the 14-year period, Thailand’s tourism revenue had soared between 2010 to 2014, with a approximately 10 billion of rising and ended at about 25 billion. The number of Thailand’s international tourists during that period had also experienced the largest increased of about 9 million compared with the remaining countries.