Bar Graph- Foreign Tourists Visiting a Country

Vocabulary

What do the words in bold below mean? Make some notes on paper to aid memory and then check below.

The bar chart details the number of tourists visiting Country X from various parts of the world and the table delineates the income of different businesses in the nation in 2007 and 2008. Overall, tourism from all regions of the world declined, though less noticeably when coming from the main sources of tourists: China, Japan, and Australia. All forms of revenue also fell, with shops and tour services accounting for the majority of revenue by 2008.

In 2007, there were over 200,000 tourists from Europe and the US and Canada, with the North American nations slightly higher. By 2008, both figures had dropped dramatically to 100,000 for the former and approximately 250,000 for the latter. In contrast, the data points for China and Japan began the period much higher (nearly 300,000) and fell less significantly (200,000). Similarly, Australian tourists numbered 275,000 in 2007 and had declined marginally to 250,000 by the following year.

In terms of income in Country X, in 2019 hotels and resorts earned 3.5 million dollars, considerably more than restaurants, bars, and souvenir shops (2.4), transportation and travel agents (1.3), and tour guides, small vendors and other services (1.4). By 2008, hotels and resorts had plunged to just $.5 million, dining options had halved to $1.2 million, and transportation had reduced to $.4 million. The most marginal decline was for tour services ($1.1 million).