The graph below shows the spending of UK residents on visits abroad between 1993 and 2013. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagram represents the UK citizens' expenditures on travelling to foreign countries for different purposes over ten years.

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, the graph shows that the journey spending during the 10 years mostly grew

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, the different travelling assignments took different amounts of money. The total quantity of billions spent on holidays started to grow from the

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nine in 1993 and culminated with the

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of 25

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in 2008.

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, after the dropping down because of the crisis, the money expenditures stagnated at the level of 22

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for four years and only after that grew again until the

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of 24 tons in 2013.

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, the line of the friend visits spending started from the

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of 1

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in 1993 and grew gradually until the quantity of 5

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.

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, the business and the miscellaneous spending started from levels two and one

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pounds respectively and were not rising so fast as other voyage expenditures and finished with the numbers of 5 and 1.5 tons simultaneously in 2013.