Iran. 2015. Parks were long regarded as spaces not yet build here, but as Iran's middle class started growing in the mid nineties the demand for relaxation also started to increase. Municipalities these days go out of their way to cater to tax paying middle class families, who long felt as if the public spaces where spaces under government control. The increased demand for services, relaxation has also led to an increase in western style shopping malls and domestic vacations to tropical islands in the Persian Gulf. There is however a lot of room for growth in the service industry, experts say.