As air travel has become cheaper, more and more people are travelling abroad for their vacations instead of visiting places in their own country. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this?

The given tables compare five different European

countries

in terms of the turnover of fair trade-labelled coffee and

bananas

in 1994 and 2004, and units are measured in millions of euros. Overall, it is noticeable that the

sales

of coffee all rose in the five

countries

from 1994 to 2004, whereas only three nations witnessed an increase in the

sales

of

bananas

in the same given period. Looking

first

at the turnover of coffee, the greatest growth can be seen in the UK, climbing from only 1.5 to 20, and that of Switzerland

also

had a twofold increase, rising from 3 to 6 in the given period. As for Denmark, Belgium and Sweden, all three

countries

had relatively marginal growth, none of their

sales

increased by over 1 million. Moving on to

bananas

, the

sales

of

bananas

in the UK climbed from 15 in 1994 to 47 in 2004, going up by 32, which was the largest growth among all

countries

.

In addition

, Switzerland and Denmark are the only two

countries

that increased over 3 million in the

sales

of

bananas

, except the UK. As for Belgium and Sweden, both experienced a decrease in the given period, decreasing from 1.8 to 1 and 2 to 0.9