of the location (local infrastructure, services, environment, other attractions, etc.); the accessibility of the attractions (the ease of reaching, the in situ visitor services, facilities or at least free access to and information about heritage objectives; visitors centers or at least the possibility of scheduling individual guided tours at relevant companies; qualified staff); the availability of information (public - private marketing cooperation). Particularities of the demand the largest majority of industrial tourists are from mature outgoing markets (Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Japan); well travelled tourists, already saturated by the classic attractions (museums, churches) or second time visitors, shift from pleasure travel to in depth experience and education; increased curiosity about the manufacturing sector and industrial works from the younger generation for which, due to the new technologies and globalization, the domain is almost historic; active, elderly or retired workers and professionals driven by nostalgia and professional curiosity; local visitors, families with children; a combination with other attractions (cultural, natural); educational and business purpose (searching for work or business-to-business collaboration). International associations and organizations Being a universal cultural asset, the industrial heritage and archeology gets a serious institutional (nonprofit), academic and governmental interest worldwide in the last decades, positively impacting its touristic potential too. The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage Society for Industrial Archeology The Association for Industrial Archaeology UNESCO Other uses for the term Some environmental and conservation activists, such as writer Edward Abbey, used the term Industrial Tourism to refer to commercialized tourism in protected natural areas, posing a threat to their ecology. In his book, Desert Solitaire, Abbey wrote: "Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. 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." In 2023, The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) highlighted commercial tourism as a threat to national parks. References External links Family Heritage Tourism Industrial heritage in Nordrhein Westfalen Industrial Tourism in Japan Report on development of industrial tourism in Kryvyi Rih in 2013 The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage Society for Industrial Archeology The Association for Industrial