 The number of international arrivals has been steadily increasing, up from 2.2 million people in 2009 to 3.6 million in 2011, with per capita spending of $1,850 per visit on average.Over five million tourists visited Iran in the fiscal year of 2014-2015, ending March 21, four percent more year-on-year.Iran has tried to improve its complex and time-consuming visa application process and started to issue week-long visas for the nationals of 68 countries at airports.