The first chart below shows the results of a survey which sampled a cross-section of 100000 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 given charts depict information about the proportion of

people

in the UK who

visit

abroad with purpose,

while

the next chart shows their country of destination between the years 1994-1998.

Overall

, the highest figure of residents who went abroad is

due to

holiday purposes. Where nearly a quarter of them answered they purposely went for business trips and

visit

friends and relatives.

While

some unspecified reasons accounted for the lowest. In terms of destination, most

people

preferred to travel to Western Europe, where North America and Other areas in the world which is the least. Looking at the first table, as observed there is an increasing trend in the total number of

people

going abroad with a rise of an estimated six thousand

people

. The reasons why UK residents travelled overseas is for Holiday, which accounted highest in all year period ( from 15,246 to 20, 700, between 1994 to1998). Far behind is for Business purposes ( roughly from 3,155 to 3,957) and a

visit

to friends and relatives ( approximately from 2,689 to 3,181) in the 4-year period. Turning to which location abroad, 19,371 UK residents choose Western Europe as their area of destinations, rising to 24, 519 by 1998.

While

Other areas are their second option to

visit

garnering 1,782 (1994),

this

number rose to almost double in 1998. Meanwhile, North America shows a 100 per cent increase throughout the period.