The line graph below shows the percentage of tourists to Scotland who visited four different attractions from 1980 to 2010

The line graph gives key information about the percentage of Scotland's population who visited four environments: the Festival, the zoo, the castle, and the aquarium during the period from 1980 to 2010.

Overall

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, the figures followed a different trend over the period shown.

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some categories experienced an upward trend,others declined or remained relatively stable. It is

also

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evident that there were considerable differences in figures among the categories. Looking first at the castle, started at 23%,increased slightly and

then

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grew dramatically to 45% in1995, before dropping steadily to almost 31% in 2010.

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, the figure for aquariums increased sharply from 20% to 35% between 1980 and 1985, before dropping significantly to just 7%

at the end

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of the period. As for the zoo , the figure showed fluctuated from around at 10% in 1980 to 20% by 2010. Meanwhile, the rate for the festival fell from 30% to roughly 25% and

then

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remained stable for the rest of the duration.