The graph below shows the number of overseas visitors who came to the Uk for different purposes between 1989 and 2009. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph below shows the number of overseas visitors who came to the Uk for different purposes between 1989 and 2009. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The line graph compares the number of international visitors who came to the United Kingdom for three various reasons (business, holiday, and meeting friends and relatives)
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1989 and 2009 with intervals of five years. The units are calibrated in millions. To give an overview, it can be seen that the visiting purpose of
holiday
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the holiday
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had the highest
values
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value
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,
while
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meeting friends and relatives was significantly lowest.
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, it is evident that the first and third
category
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experienced an upward trend
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the number of visitors for holidays observed few fluctuations. In the year 1989, the total number of people who visited the UK for holidays
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around 6.5
million
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and it remained stable for the first 2-3 years before enjoying a sharp rise and reaching a peak of 9
million
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in 1996.
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, It started to notice a rapid drop from 1999 with the third category overtaking it for some time in 2004 and
at the end
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of the period, it reached the same level as in 1996.
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, at the
starting
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of the period, the numbers for business and meeting friends and relatives stood at 5
million
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and 3.5
million
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, respectively. These two groups followed a similar pattern of
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upward trend and reached their peaks at 8
million
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and 7
million
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, respectively in 2009 before starting to decrease in the end.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words million with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "number of" in your introduction.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "reached" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • overseas visitors
  • trend
  • fluctuations
  • statistics
  • year-on-year comparison
  • peak periods
  • holidaymakers
  • business trips
  • educational tourism
  • significant increase/decrease
  • data interpretation
  • exponential growth
  • steady decline
  • seasonal variation
  • cultural events
  • tourist influx
  • graph analysis
  • quantitative change
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