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The first chart below shows the results of a survey which sampled a cross-section of 100,000 people asking if they travelled abroad and why they travelled for the period 1994-98. The second chart shows their destinations over the same period.

The first chart below shows the results of a survey which sampled a cross-section of 100,000 people asking if they travelled abroad and why they travelled for the period 1994-98. The second chart shows their destinations over the same period.
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While
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 the first chart gives
an information
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information
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 about
survey
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 results which
taken
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were taken
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 from a
cross section
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cross-section
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 of hundred
respondents
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 asking about the
purpose
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 of their travel, the
second
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 chart provides information about their destinations of visits by main region. The
survey
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 was taken between 1994 and 1998 in both
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charts
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.
Overall
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, it is
obviously
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 that most of
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respondents
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the respondents
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 travel abroad
with
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for
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 a
holiday
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purpose
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purposes
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 and
also
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goes
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go
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 to the countries of
the
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apply
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Western Europe during the period when the
survey
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 was held. In the first table graph, almost th
three quarters
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three-quarters
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 of
respondents
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 (15246) answered that the major reason for their travel was
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holiday
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a holiday
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 in 1994.
This
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 main trend started to decrease from that year
untill
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until
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next
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the next
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 year by about 4
thousand
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 people and reached
at
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apply
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just above 15
thousand
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. But
the
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in the
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 following years, there was a slight increase in the
number
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 of
tourist
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tourists
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with
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for
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holiday
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purpose
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purposes
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, and
in
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at
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 the end year of the
survey
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, the
number
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 reached
at
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above 20
thousand
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. Despite the
holiday
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purpose
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, the reasons for business activity and visiting friends and families were more popular
from
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than
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other kind
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another kind
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 of reasons. In 1994, the travelled UK citizens with business and visiting relatives
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purpose
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purposes
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 were just above (3155) and under 3
thousand
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 (2689), respectively.
Then
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 the marginal growth
was
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occured
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occurred
 continually in the
number
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 of people who travelled
with
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for
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 these purposes mentioned above during the
next
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 years, and for business, the figure almost reached
at
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4
thousand
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, and for visiting relatives, it
outweighted
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outweighed
 3
thousand
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. There was
also
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a
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apply
show examples
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respondents
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respondent
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 whose travelling
purpose
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 was different, and the
number
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 of
these kind
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this kind
these kinds
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 of people
was fluctuated
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fluctuated
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 along
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thousand
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the thousand
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 during the
survey
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 period.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "also, next".
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Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Vocabulary: Replace the words survey, respondents, purpose, holiday, thousand, number with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "chart" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "information" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "reached" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 4 times.
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