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.

The given line graph provides information about spent money in the United Kingdom by foreign visitors between 1980 and 2010, at the same time the pie chart shows distribution of the goals for visit in percentage comparing 1980 and 2010.

Overall, the amount of money spent was fluctuate, but increased from nearly 8,000 to almost 10,500 over three decades. In addition, reasons for visit had changed slightly during this time.

Since 1980 the graph began to increasing, with little declines over the time. Then there was a significant growth from around 9,000 to 12,000 millions of pounds by the ending of 1995. After that, the graph had become for one quarter less between 2000 and 2005. Afterwards, by 2010 the amount of money spent had reached around 10,500 millions of pounds.

As can be seen from the pie chart, the highest percentage of reasons for visit by foreign citizens at 1980 and 2010 was holiday, almost two in five people had chosen this category. The percentage of buisness visits during those years were equal. Family and friends meeting rose from 18,7% to 28,2% by 2010. The other reasons had decreased by nearly 7% of all other reasons.