The 1404 (2025/26) Vision Document, or the Twenty-Year Vision, has set Iran's share of the world's foreign tourists at 1/5 percent. Iran must strive, by the Vision deadline, to attract 20 million foreign tourists to the country each year. At present, in 1400 (2021/22), even half of this number has not yet been achieved.
From 1386 to 1391 (2007–2013), Iran's foreign tourists grew 2-fold; but the main surge in tourist numbers was due to the collapse of the national currency in the years 96 and 97 (1396–1397 / 2017–2019). The fall in the rial's value against the dollar has turned Iran into an inexpensive country for tourists. Probably another collapse in the rial's value could achieve the 20-million target!
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Source: Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian