The charts below show the proportion of holidaymakers using four different types of accommodation in three different years.

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

Sample 1:

The pie charts compare the choices of accommodation when people took holidays in three separate years – 1988, 1998 and 2008.

Overall, although a large percentage of travelers still preferred to stay with people they know, the choice of renting an apartment had attracted more holidaymakers over the two decades.

In 1988, more than half (52%) of travelers chose to stay at their friends’ or family’s place, which was twice as many as the proportion of those who decided to camp outside, at 26%. The third preferable choice of accommodation turned out to be hotels which held 15% of tourists in this year. Only a small proportion (7%) of holiday makers tended to rent an apartment.

10 years later, staying with acquaintances remained as the main choice, whereas hotels and rented apartments attracted a higher proportion of travelers than in 1988, at 22% and 11% respectively. The percentage of campers had reduced by half.

This situation had obviously changed in 2008, when 22% of tourists accommodated themselves in a rented apartment, twice as many as the proportion of this group in 1998, while 44% lived with family members and friends, 10% lower than in 1998. Hotels and camping sites did not see any increase in their market share.

Sample 2:

The pie charts compare the proportion of holidaymakers who stayed with family and friends, who stayed at hotels, who stayed at rented apartments and who camped between 1988 and 2008.

Overall, it can be seen that the proportion of holidaymakers who stayed with family and friends was significantly more than those who preferred the other three types of accommodation. Moreover, the figures for those staying with family and friends and those doing camping fell, while the proportion choosing hotels and rented apartments increased.

In 1988, just over half of holidaymakers stayed with friends and family while the proportion camping out was nearly half of that. With time, both these numbers fell and in 2008, 44% stayed with family and friends and only 12% preferred to camp out on holidays.

By contrast, the percentage of holidaymakers renting places during holidays and boarding at hotels rose with time. In 1988, only 7% stayed in rented apartments, while the proportion of staying at hotels accounted for 15% of the holidaymakers. In 2008, the figure stood at 22% for both rented apartments and hotels.

Sample 3:

The pie charts illustrate four common types of accommodation that people chose when on holiday in 1988, 1998, and 2008.

Overall, the most popular choice of accommodation when on holiday was to stay with family, despite a downward trend over the twenty-year period. In contrast, while renting apartments and staying in hotels became more popular over the years, camping became less popular.

In 1988, 52% of people on holiday chose to stay with family. This figure rose to 54% ten years later; however, it dropped to 44% by 2008. Approximately a quarter of all holiday-makers chose to camp when on holiday in 1988, but this became less and less popular reaching 12% by 2008.

Staying in hotels and renting apartments were the least popular accommodation choices among holiday-makers in 1988, at 15% and 7% respectively. These figures gradually increased over the following twenty years, both reaching 22% by 2008.

Sample 4:

The pie charts compare the distribution of travelers using four different types of accommodation from 1988 to 2008, in ten-year intervals. Generally, while there was a dip in popularity, staying with family was the most common choice of accommodation. Both renting apartments and staying in hotels saw an increase throughout the period, while camping and staying with family saw a downward trend.

In 1988, 58% of holiday-goers stayed with their family while on vacation. This figure increased to 54% in 1998, followed by a 10% drop in 2008, making it the most popular choice of accommodation throughout the period. Similarly, campers accounted for 26% of all holidaymakers in 1988, before dropping to 13% in 1998. This figure saw a minor decrease to 12% in 2008.

Conversely, only 7% of travelers chose apartments as the preferred method of accommodation in 1988, which indicated that this was the least common accommodation choice in 1988. In 1998, however, this figure increased to 11%, followed by another increase to 22% in 2008. A similar rise was seen in hotels, where 15% of visitors selected this type of accommodation in 1988. Following this, hotels saw a noticeable increase in popularity, rising to 22% in 1998, and remained stable at this number until 2008.