The line chart depicts information about visits to other countries made by UK residents and visits to the UK by people outside of the country between the years 1979 and 1999, the bar chart illustrates the most visited countries by british people in 1999.
It’s readily apparent, that traveling outside of the UK was more popular than visiting UK throughout the whole period of time. Moreover, France was the most popular place the british people visited.
Number of visits outside of the UK were nearly the same levels with visits to the UK in 1979, however by the end of the time period the gap between was clearly big. Both of them showed relatively gradual growth until 1989, with visits abroad experiencing a significant rise in the gradient. By the year 1999 visits abroad was the most popular, peaking at just over 50 million people.
The barchart shows information about five most preferred countries by british residents, with France topping the chart at slightly over 10 million people, whereas Turkey standing at the fifth spot at marginally lower than halve 5 million people. Spain came second with little less people visiting than France. On the onther hand, USA and Greece where relatively the same, with third and fourth places respectively.