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

The table demonstrates the number of abroad travellers in the UK in terms of purposes,

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the bar charts present three particular destinations that they visited, namely Western Europe, North America and other areas from 1994 to 1998.

Overall

, it can be seen that the number of overseas travellers experienced an upward trend and Western Europe was their favourite place throughout the course surveyed. As for the table,

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is the most popular travelling purpose, which always held the first place during the period, with the figures ranging from 15,246 in 1994 to 20,700 in 1998. Following

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the numbers

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between 3,155 and 3,957 during the four-year course.

Then

, the figure for the British spending their trip on visiting their friends and relatives shared the same rising tendency that marked 3,181 in 1998 compared to 2,698 in 1994.

Finally

, travelling for other reasons

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rose from 982 in 1994 to 990 in 1998. Turning to the bar charts, the key point here is that the majority of the British took more time to visit Western Europe with the number of people grew significantly from nearly 20000 in 1994 to almost 25000 in 1998,

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residents travelling to North America and other areas held a smaller proportion, just under 5000 during the period of four years,

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slight growth in the given years.