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.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make
comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.

The line graph gives information about the proportion of tourists using five different kinds of
transportation to travel around a particular country from 1989 to 2009.

Overall, only the percentage of air travelers witnessed a fall, whereas the rest increased by
varying degrees. It is also reported that cars were the most favored means of transport in
most years, except for the final one, when being surpassed by rail.

Looking first at ‘car’ and ‘rail’ categories, initially, just under 50% of tourists decided to use
the former for their travel. Thereafter, car usage increased significantly to a peak of 62% in
1999, before falling to 52% in the final year. Due to this fall, the popularity of car use fell from
first to second place. Echoing a similar trajectory observed in the ‘car’ group, despite
commencing with much lower figures, at around 34%, the ‘rail’ one registered the highest
percentages of tourist usage and overtook those figures of car use in around 2006 to
become the most favored means of transport.

Conversely, the proportion of air travelers, which is the only group exhibiting an decrease in
its figures, started at just under 40% before ending the period at north of 20%. Coach
received quite little attention from tourists, with merely 10% of users opting for it as a means
of transportation in the beginning of the period. It is noteworthy that despite the second
lowest starting point, ‘coach’ group exceeded ‘air’ one in around 2006 to rank the third place.
Undergoing the similar pattern for the first fifteen years seen in the ‘couch’ category, it stood
at 4% and reached just above 10% in 2004 before ending up with a mere 8%, which
remained its lowest figures throughout the period and represented the least prevalent
transport options among the five categories examined.