Mixed Table and Line: Tourist Arrivals and Spending Report (Band 9)
Band-9 Task 1 mixed report on tourist arrivals table plus spending line, with volume-value divergence analysis.
The table shows tourist arrivals by region and the line graph shows total tourist spending from 2010 to 2020. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features.
A Band-9 model report
The visuals pair visitor volume against revenue across a decade, revealing growth in both — with spending outpacing arrivals throughout.
Overall, arrivals roughly doubled from 50 to 98 million while spending nearly tripled from $40 to $115 billion. Visitors multiplied; their wallets multiplied faster.
The table shows Asia driving volume growth: arrivals from the region tripled from 12 to 36 million, overtaking Europe (steady at 20 to 24 million) as the leading source. Americas doubled from 10 to 21 million; other regions combined grew from 8 to 17 million. By 2020, Asia supplied over a third of all visitors — a structural shift in origin mix.
The spending line climbs more steeply at every stage. From $40 billion in 2010 it reached $65 billion by 2014, $90 billion by 2017, and $115 billion by 2020 — accelerating even as arrival growth steadied. Per-visitor spending therefore rose roughly fifty percent, implying wealthier tourists, longer stays, or premium experiences.
Volume and value diverge meaningfully: the industry grew richer faster than it grew bigger. Asia delivered the heads; rising spend per head delivered the revenue. Tourism's decade was volume-led early, value-led late.
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Examiner notes: why Band 9
Task Achievement (9): Overview quantifies both trajectories plus the divergence insight. Table detailed by region with the Asia-overtake story; line tracked with milestone years; per-visitor inference derived, not stated.
Coherence & Cohesion (9): Volume paragraph, value paragraph, divergence synthesis. "Drove," "delivered," "led/late" parallelisms unify.
Lexical Resource (9): Tourism-economics precision: "origin mix," "structural shift," "per-visitor spending," "premium experiences," "volume-led/value-led." Analytical fluency.
Grammatical Range & Accuracy (9): Colon-led findings, participial phrases, parallel closes. Exact.
High-scoring phrases
- wallets multiplied faster — spending outpacing arrivals
- overtaking as source — leadership change
- accelerating as growth steadied — divergence dynamic
- heads vs revenue — volume-value shorthand
- volume-led early, value-led late — phase characterization
- richer faster than bigger — aphoristic summary close
Quick answers
Table plus line: which first?
Table usually first (the categories), then the line (the trend). Establish what, then show how it moved.
Volume vs value divergence: how do I present it?
Compute per-unit implicitly: arrivals doubled but spending tripled means richer visitors. Ratios derived from two visuals are peak Task Achievement.
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