The bar chart below shows employment figures in different tourism-related industries between 2009 and 2019.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The chart provides a breakdown of employment in a number of tourism-related industries over a ten-year period. Units are measured in thousands.
Overall, we can see that the total level of employment increased markedly during the period. However, there was some variation in the figures for the individual sectors. For example, while the travel industry increased its workforce substantially over the decade, there was comparatively little growth in the other business domains.
At a fleeting glance it can be vividly seen that Travel represented the biggest area of expansion, having almost doubled its number of employees by 2019. The food industry also saw a significant increase, from 283,000 employees in 2009 to 357,000 in 2019, while the sports industry enjoyed an almost equal level of growth. The least successful sector was culture, including museums and art galleries, where the figures actually fell slightly over the period. Hotels also witnessed a faint growth in terms of providing occupation with an incline of merely 6800 in the number of employees after a decade.
The data suggests that, despite minor fluctuations in the various sectors, employment in the tourism industry grew as a whole.
