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The Bar chart illustrates the mean daily hours spent in 2009, in the participation of recreational activities by
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of different nationalities, Chinese, American, Turkish & Brazillian, while vacationing in Greece. Overall,
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chart shows that the top 2 leisure
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activities, irrespective of nationality were spending
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on the beach and reading books.
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, the least amount of
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by all was spent exploring new sites. It is interesting that the highest peak of
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graph is by Chinese
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spending an average of 8 hours a day reading books while they have the least amount of
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spent at the beach in comparison to the rest of the nationalities. They
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have the sharpest difference in spending equal
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between activities. In ,contrast all other nationalities, have approximately a 2 to 3-hour difference between
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spent on each activity. The split of the most popular activity can be divided into 2 groups. American and Chinese
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in group 1 with reading as their favourite activity and Turkish and Brazillian
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in group 2, with relaxing by the beach as theirs.

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