Band 6+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The line graph shows how much money overseas visitors spent in the UK from 1980 - 2010 and the pie charts show the reasons for their visits in 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

These show a line graph and a pie chart of money spent in the UK by overseas visitors and its reason between 1980 until 2010. Overall, the money spent by visitors showed fluctuation between those years. In the 1980 and 2010, most of the visitors came to the UK for holiday purposes meanwhile the least category was for Others.

In 1980, visitors spent started at $7800 and dropped significantly in 1983 reaching $6700 before finally experiencing a general increase from 1984 to 1990. The peak increase happened in 1992 from $8900 to 1992 and reached $12000. However, there was a significant decline in 2003 and the last in 2010, reaching $10.800.

The overseas visitors in 1980 were dominated by tourists (44,1%) which was the same as in 2010 (39,1%). On the other hand in 1980, business reaching the second for 26,7% continued by visiting friends and relative purposes for 14,7%. This pattern was reversible in 2010, where visiting friends (26,2%) in the second and business (22,1%) in the third. The remaining category was Others reached the least category, which in 1980 accounted for 16,6% and in 2010 accounted for 9,8%.