The line gragh shows visits to and from the UK from 1979 to 1999, and the bar graph shows the most popular countries visited by UK residents in 1999.

The above line graph shows the 2 types of visiting numbers in the

UK

over a 20-year period,

while

the below bar chart illustrates the counts of

UK

tourists in 5 different countries in 1999.

Overall

, we can see that the visiting numbers were both in increased trends and the most popular countries in 1999 for

UK

residents were France.

Firstly

, despite facing a slight upward trend from 1979 to 1985, visits abroad type counts significantly grew from 20

million

in 1985 to more than 50

million

in 1999.

However

, there was not the same behaviour on visits to the

UK

section starting from 10

million

in 1979

then

steadily growing to 28

million

in 1999. Focusing on the 5 most popular countries in 1999, the most popular was France which had more than 10

million

British people visited in 1999. The second most visited country was Spain which had 9

million

British tourists.

Furthermore

, Greece, the USA, and Turkey shared almost the same numbers at below 5

million

.