The table shows overseas visitors to London and other parts of the UK in 1996 and 2001.
Overall, the most popular reason for visit London by Overseas and UK visitors is Holiday, while the less popular reason it others activities in two period. At the same time the total number of visitors in London-Overseas visitors was higher than that of UK visitors in tow years.
First of all, the figure for holiday visit in Overseas visitors increased from 45% to 48%, and was higher than that of the Uk visitors, which rose from 40% to 43tween two years. The following figure for Meeting friends and relatives, where the percentage of Overseas visitors was lower than that of UK visitors by 5%, increased from 25% to 27% and 30% to 32% respectively.
Turning to the proportion of business and Conference visit decreased by 3% in each categories, accounted for 20% and 18% in 1996 respectively. The figures for other reasons for the visit in both categories and in both years stood at approximately 10%, having decreased by only 2%. Finally, the total number of Overseas visitors rose from 10,500,00 to 12,300,000 visitors, while the amount of UK visitors increased from 8,200,000 to 9,600,000.
