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.

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opted for when travelling within a certain nation from 1989 to 2009. Note that,

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may have used more than one kind of transport.

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, the usage of all forms of transportation increased, except for air travel.

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,

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was the type of transport used the least by

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,

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rail travel became the most common towards the end of the timeframe. In 1989, nearly half of all

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used a car when travelling within

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particular country.

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figure continued to rise over the following 10 years, reaching a peak of 60% in 1999, before steadily declining to just over 50% in the final year. Similar changes can be seen in the percentage of

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that travelled by rail within the country, starting at around 35%, and climbing to almost 60% twenty years later.

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is in stark contrast to the proportion of visitors who used air travel, as it experienced a constant decline from just below 40% to slightly over 20%

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of the period. Meanwhile, the use of

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and

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followed very similar trends.

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the former increased significantly from nearly 10% in 1989 to approximately 25% in 2009, the latter went up from roughly 5% to hit a high of around 12% in 2004, and by the end of the period it had fallen slightly to just under 10%.