The graph illustrates the changes in the number of foreign visitors to the three different areas such as the coast, the mountains and the lakes in a European country between 1987 and 2007. The figures are provided in thousands of visitors.
Overall, all these regions showed an upward trend over the twenty-year period, with the area of the coast experiencing the most significant rise. The number of visitors to the mountains grew steadily across the period, while the figures for quantity of tourists to the region of lakes had a considerable increase by 2002, and after this year the rates dropped sharply.
In 1987, the coast area had the highest number of travellers at 40 thousand, while the mountains and the lakes ones had substantially fewer. Between 1987 and 2002, all three zones increased: the numbers of overseas guests to the lakes district rose sharply, climbing from 10 to 75 thousand, the rates of the mountains zone grew slightly from 20 to 30, remaining stable between 1997 and 2002. Although the figures for quantity of foreigners who visited the coast area had a marginal drop in 1992 at 35 thousand, the rates increased significantly after this year to 60 thousand in 2002.
By 2007, the coast area reached the highest figure to around 75 thousand visitors, overtaking the lakes zone, which had peaked in 2002 before dipping sharply to 50 thousand by the end of the period. The mountains region continued its steady growth, increasing to about 35 thousand.