Band 7+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The chart below shows the top ten countries with the highest spending on travel in 2014. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The bar chart provides information about the leading ten countries with the most expenditure on travel in 2014.

Overall, it is clearly seen that China had the highest expenditure on travel, while Taiwan was lowest among the top ten countries in the given period.

It is evident from the graph that China spent more than 100 billion US dollars, which was the largest expenditure on travel in 2014. Followed by, the United States and Germany, which spent an equal amount on travel, at about 85 billion US dollars. Almost 55 US billion dollars were spent by the United Kingdom and 25 US billion dollars were spent by Singapore. The data indicates that South Korea and Hong Kong spent an equal amount of about 20 billion US dollars on travel in the given period. Below 20 US billion dollars were spent by India, Malaysia and Taiwan. The lowest proportion was spent by Taiwan, which was approximately 10 billion US dollars in 2014.