The line graph illustrates the amount of UK residents going to abroad from the UK and overseas resident visiting the UK between 1979 and 1999. The bar chart displays how many British residents travelled to five of the most famous countries in 1999.
Overall, there was an increase in the number of visit to and from the UK and there were more visits abroad by UK residents than visits to the UK by overseas resident over the period given. Furthermore, most popular country to visit by residents was France in 1999, Whereas, Turkey was the least popular.
According to the line graph, the number of UK residents visiting overseas began just over 10 million in 1979 and rose significantly to reach just over 50 million, highest of any category in that year. Around 10 million overseas citizens came to UK in the first year before climbing steadily to just under 30 million in the last year.
Regarding the bar chart in 1999, the two most popular countries were Spain and France, where approximately 9 million and just above 10 million UK resident visited respectively. However, USA and Greece had about 4 million and 3 million visitors. The least popular country visited was Turkey, which had only about 2 million UK citizens going there.
