The line graph shows how much money overseas visitors spent in the UK from 1980 - 2010 and the pie charts show the reasons for their visits in 1980 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph depicts the expenditures of the

people

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who visited the

UK

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between 1980 and 2010,

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the pie charts elaborate the

reasons

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for visiting in the two years 1980 and 2000, broken down into 4 categories ( Holiday, business, visiting friends and family, and other

reasons

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)

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, visitors spent the highest amount of money between 1996 and 1998, and the spending saw many fluctuations through the given period.

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, the majority of visitors came for holidays in 1980 and 2000, and the smallest segment in both years was for other

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' category. The lowest spendings were around the year 1982 with 7000 million pounds roughly, after that the expenditures witnessed a gradual rise till 1990,

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decreased slightly till 1993 to rise again in 1996 and reached 12000 million pounds, after that

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spent less and less and the spending reached around 10700 million pounds in 2010. 44.1% of

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came to the

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to spend their holidays in 1980 , and 39.1 came for the same reason in 2010.

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, the percentage of visitors who travel to the

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to meet with friends and family increased from 18.7% in 1980 to 28.2% in 2010,

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the rate of

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who visited the

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for other

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decreased from 1980 to 2010 with 18.7% and 28.8% respectively.