The statistics come from the results of a survey which investigate in purposes and destinations of visit abroad by UK residents over the period of 1994 to 1998.
As we can seen from the first table, visit abroad for holiday is the most popular ,business purpose coming a close second and visit to friends and relatives being the least popular. Specifically, the number of visit for holiday is 15246 in 1994 , and in 1998 ,reach 20700 finally.The same situation appears in other sections ,namely, 3155 for go abroad and 2689 for friends and relatives in 1994 while 3957 and 3181 in 1998. Generally,there is a steady increase in total number of visit abroad from 1994 to 1998 except for the year 1995 which has a slight decline.
In terms of the second table, the most favorite destination of UK visitors is Western Europe ,followed by North American.The Western Europe occupy the first place by huge advantages shows by the data: the numbers of visitors of Western Europe are 19371 in 1994 and 24519 in 1998 ,against that of North American are 919 in year 1994 and 1823 in year 1998. In addition, there also lies an increase in destinations and which shows the trend of UK pepole prefer to travelling.
2。这句有问题:As we can seen from the first table, visit abroad for holiday is the most popular ,business purpose coming a close second and visit to friends and relatives being the least popular.