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Industrial tourism is tourism in which the desired destination includes industrial sites peculiar to a particular location. The concept is not new, as it includes wine tours in France, visits to cheesemakers in the Netherlands, Jack Daniel's distillery tours in the United States (available since 1866), but has taken on renewed interest in recent times, with both industrial heritage sites and modern industry attracting tourism. == Attractiveness == 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: * goods with a symbolic character for a region (from coal and energy in Ruhr, to bananas and coffee in Guatemala); * branded, luxury goods like cars, watches and jewels; * technologically demanding, innovative goods like computers and airplanes; * handcrafted goods like porcelain and blacksmith products; * drinks and foods. An attractions directory for some Central SE European countries illustrates and includes this classification. The attractiveness perception is also influenced by the cities' of destination ability to build touristic packages that reflect their industrial image and/or identity; respectively, in the case of tour operators, by mastering the industrial component in their attraction mix in the offered packages. Presently, even on the mature markets, there are relatively few tour operators providing industrial tourism packages, completing other offers and almost always missing the specialized ones, as researched in a market study conducted by one of the tour operators providing such specialized services. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Industrial tourism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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