The graph below shows the percentages of tourists who used different types of transport to travel within a particular nation between 1989 and 2009. Each tourist may have used more than one type of transport. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line chart illustrates the proportion of tourists using five different types of transport to travel around the mentioned nation from 1989 to 2009. It is noticeable that travellers may have used more than one kind of transport.

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, it could be seen that there were upward trends in the percentage of all forms of transportation, except for air transit. Whilst visitors travelling by car contributed the highest rate, the opposite was true that of holidaymakers using ferries.

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with, there were about 50% of folk took a trip by car in the first year of the period, at that time reached a peak at the level of 60% in 1999, which was the highest ratio through the period.

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portion sharply declined by roughly 10% and ended with the second rank after the percentage of individuals using the railway.

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the share of visitors that travelled by rail within the country was over 30%, under that of humans travelling by airline,

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figure soared to nearly 60% after 20 years. Looking at the rest, the use of coach and ferry shared a similar tendency.

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the former witnessed an increase from 10% to under 30%, the latter went up to over 10%,

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slightly decreased to under 10% in 2009. The only transportation persons used to tour within a nation experiencing a downward inclination was air journey, from 40% to practically 20%.