The paper reviews the origin of development of industrial popular science tourism in foreign countries, and analyzes the development status in China through industrial demonstration sites. Furthermore, the paper analyzes some problems in this regard, such as the unbalanced development effectiveness, the single variety of products, the weak performance of tourism awareness, the poor quality of services, and the outdated concept of development. The paper sums up a batch of successful experience concerning the development industrial popular science tourism in developed countries: Clear objectives, rich products, widely-distributed customers, flexible management, and attaching great importance to marketing strategy. Finally, combined with existing problems and the experience coming from developed countries, the paper provides references for the development of industrial popular science tourism in China, these are manifested in the following aspects: the balanced development effectiveness, the enriching structure of product varieties, the changing demand for tourism, the improvement of service quality, and trying hard to obtain support from the government.