Industrial tourism

Even if the concept is subjective, depending on a person's preferences, it has been noticed (through market researches) that people like to see and experience the present or historic (heritage) production processes of: An attractions directory[1] for some Central SE European countries illustrates and includes this classification.

[3] However, successful achievements are few and mostly in the developed countries (in Western Europe [4] - especially Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands; as well as in the US and Japan) where a culture of leadership and collaboration between the different stakeholders at the community's governance level already exists.

There is a positive trend and some remarkable achievements in Central Europe (Austria, Hungary,[5] the Czech Republic, Poland), China and India too.

Wind farms and other energy generation facilities including dams and retired nuclear power plants are increasingly popular sites for educational tours.

So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars, they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban–suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while."