Band 5+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The chart below give information about travel to and from the UK, and about the most popular countries for UK residents to visit. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The chart illustrates the number of overseas residents’ visits to UK from period 1979 to 1999 and most popular countries visited by UK residents.

Visits abroad by UK residents in 20 years is significantly more compared to residents of overseas countries. France is the most visited country by UK residents while Turkey is the lowest as well as remaining countries as Greece, USA and Spain lay between them.

Numbers of UK and overseas residents’ visits were similiarly increasing from about 10 million until year 1984 whereby number of UK visitors in addition had seen a significant growth. From year 1984 to 1999, number of UK residents’ visits abroad was growing from about 20 millions to over 50 million people while growth of overseas visitors to UK in 1989 had seen a little increase by 20 million people. It then remained a steady growth until year 1999 by reaching to almost 30 million people. Countries as Turkey, Greece and USA had less than 5 million UK visitors in 1999. However, over 10 millions have been to spain then and nearly 10 millions visited Spain.