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 tables provide the outcome of the poll that was done to collect data about people's journeys from 1994 to 1998. The first chart gives the information about aims of the trips

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the second one shows the popularity of the different places to stay.

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, the total amount of travellers steadily grew, the holidays were the most famous reason for the trip and at the same time, meeting with friends remained in the

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position of rating (

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trips for other purposes).

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, Western Europe took a leading position among all destinations. In the period between 1994 and

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the popularity of each reason for a trip has moderately risen, the only slight fall was experienced by "unidentified reasons" when numbers dropped from 982 to 896 in 1995.

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, figures for every sector went up and reached a total of 28,828 by the end of the estimated period. The level of visiting other countries

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showed an upward trend, but oscillation in 1995 decreased the total result from 22072 to 21610 journeys.

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, after the unconsiderable decline, the figures

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grow and the main contributor was Western Europe which got 24519 tourists by the end of the term ,

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, the total number constituted the mentioned early 28828 people.