The chart below give information about travel to and from the UK, and about the most popular countries for UK residents to visit.

The first chart highlights data about travelling into and out of the UK in percentages and the second one

also

displays reports about favourable territories from Britain travellers' perspective.

Overall

, it can be seen that there had been a dramatic improvement concerning the first chart in both mentioned items.

In addition

, France was the most preferred country in comparison with others

conversely

, Turkey was at the bottom of the list. Looking at the details, in 1979 the overseas portion commenced at 10 and

then

, it only experienced a negligible increase until 1986 but strikingly after that year it continued to grow year by year and hit a peak at 28 in 1999. What's more, the same process is observed in the foreign category with a small difference as its ratio embarked on 12 and it rocketed to over fifty in 1999 which meant it saw a five times increase. Regarding the bottom chart, France was the number-one destination with approximately 12 million travelling there, just ahead of Spain, which was chosen by nine million making it almost twice as popular as the USA,

this

territory was followed by Greece with one-fifth lower holiday-makers and

finally

, Turkey was a land with the least amount around two million.