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The number of tourists visiting Malaysia and Dubai from 1995 to 2003 is presented below. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown in the diagrams below.

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The given chart compares the information of travellers who visited
Malaysia
 and
Dubai
 in 8 years. All the categories
measured
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are measured
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 in
thousand
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thousands
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. By and large, the
proportions
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proportion
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 of
tourists
 in
Dubai
 rose gradually over 8 years
while
 the number of
tourists
 in
Malaysia
 was an upward trend over the period. Around 100
thousand
tourists
 visited
Malaysia
 in 1995 and it was more than double who visited
Dubai
at
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in
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 the same
year
. Next
year
,
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the visited
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visited
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visits
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Malaysia
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to Malaysia
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 increased slightly
while
decreased
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decreasing
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 in
Dubai
.
Furthermore
, the
tourist
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number of tourists
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 in both countries climbed to around 200
thousand
 in
past
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the past
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 two years. In 1998 the number of travellers in
Dubai
 declined slightly to around 50
thousand
 before rapidly increasing to approximately 325
thousand
 in 2001 and both of the countries met at the same point in
this
year
. Next
year
,
tourists
 in
Dubai
 decreased slightly and climbed to 400
thousand
 in
last
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 period
while
 it
was
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dropped suddenly
of
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from
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tourists
 in
Malaysia
 to around 250
thousand
 in
last
year
.
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