The table illustrates the data of travellers as well as their average expenditures over the period of 5 years.It can be seen that all the figures experienced an upward trend except for the average nights per visits. In addition, the number of visitors were the highest figure by the end of the period, followed closely by the spend, average spend per visits, and average nights per visits respectively.
Turning to the number of visits and their spending, the former rose sharply from its starting point of 24.715 million people in 2003 to 32.778 million people in 2007 before declining slightly to 31.88 million people by 2008. Likewise, after undergoing a consistent increase from 11.855 pound billions to 15.960 pound billions from the first three years, the money allocated for travel decreased negligibly to 15.960 pound billions before recovering to the highest point at 16.323 in the year 2008
Concerning the remain categories, the date for the average spend per visits climbed remarkably from 475 to 511 throughout the 5-year-period. By contrast, the figure for average nights per tours grew minimally from 8.2 to 8.4 in the first three years, then flattened out to 7.7 in 2008.