The line chart compares the average daily spending of international visitors to New Zealand for three purposes between 1997 and 2007.
Overall
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it is clear that
expenditures on holidays & vocation and visiting friends or relatives witnessed an increase over the period shown, Linking Words
while
there was a significant decline in money spent on business.
In 1997, approximately $120 was spent on paying a visit to friends or relatives, Linking Words
while
the figure was more than doubled in the outgoings of business, at $260, and the cost for holidaymakers was $190 every day. From Linking Words
then
on, the expenditures in all categories showed an increase, in which holidaymakers and visitors for friends and relatives spent $270 and $220 in 2003, reaching the peak. With some fluctuations, the daily spending for businessmen peaked at $330 in 2004.
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However
, the year 2005 saw a considerable decrease in the cost spent by businessmen, reducing by $150, after which it plummeted to $145 in 2015. The trend was almost the same for the rest of the purposes at the same time. Linking Words
Although
the average spending from business people jumped to $260 a year later, it fell back to $200 in 2017 on a daily basis, which was outnumbered by the cost from people making holiday, at $240, but was higher than that of visiting travellers, at $140.Linking Words
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