The table provides information about the quantity of travellers in the UK alongside their average expenditure. The statistics were recorded in a six-year period starting from 2003.
In general, it is clearly seen that the figure for visitors in the UK and the expense almost every year grew over the course of 6 years, however, the opposite was true for the length of stay per visits whose figures considerably dropped. Furthermore, the biggest figures for all aspects were recorded in 3 final years ( 2006-2008).
In terms of visitors, it recorded an upward trend and saw consistent increases from 24.715 millions in 2003 to 32.778 in 2007 before falling slightly to 31.88 in 2008. Similarly, the total of expense experienced a steady, though small, increase from 11.855 pound billions in 2003 to 16.002 in 2006 with a slightly dip in 2007 and finally it picked up again 16.323 pound billions in 2008.
Regarding expenditure, the average spend started off at 475 pounds for each person in 2003 then kept rising over the period and reached its disproportionately high in 2008. In contrast, only 8.2 nights per visit for tourists in 2003 and then it witnessed a slow upward trend of 0.2 to hit a high of 8.4 nights in 2006 before falling dramatically to 7.7 nights in 2007 and remained the same for the next year.