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

the graph below shows the spending of UK residents on visits abroad between 1993 and 2013. summarize the information by selection and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The line graph illustrates the four types of Britain residents' expenditure (holiday, business, visit friends or relatives, miscellaneous)
while
visiting other countries within ten years and is measured in billion pounds.
Overall
, the four spending categories had increased during the timeframe, with the holiday as the most
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thing to do overseas. To commence, the British people spent enormous amounts of money on leisure activities abroad, recorded at 9 in 1993,
this
figure fluctuated for the next five years to reach 12.
Subsequently
, in the following 20 years, there was a moderate surge, where the figure doubled and reached its peak at around 25.
However
,
this
number plummeted by 3 points the next year before it continued to fluctuate and finished at just below 24 in 2013.
Although
business was the second biggest expense amongst the UK’s residents who went abroad, it stood at six points lower than the holidays in 1993.
This
category
then
oscillated throughout the period given and ended up at 5 in 2013. Following the same pattern, the aim for visiting colleagues or families started at approximately 2 in the first year, continuing to fluctuate for the whole period before exceeding the business purpose in the
last
year. The miscellaneous as the lowest spending, share the same pattern as well, beginning with nearly a million and ending with fairly 2 billion.
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