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IELTS Academic Task 1: Pie Chart — Travel & tourism
Original practice prompt written in exam style — not a real exam question, and not a prediction.
The chart below shows the main reasons for air travel among passengers at an international airport. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The data is as follows (share of all passengers). Leisure travel was the largest category at 48%, followed by business travel at 32%. Visiting friends and relatives accounted for 14%, and all other purposes together made up the remaining 6%. The figures total 100%. Leisure and business travel together represented four out of every five passengers.
Examiner focus: Two dominant purposes and two minor ones — quantify the top-two share (80%) in the overview.
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