ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a description and analysis of industrial tourism in the German city of Cologne or Koln, as the city is called in German. It discusses the organisational framework for industrial tourism in Cologne and comprehends an overview of a number of industrial tourism attractions in Cologne and surroundings. The Cologne Tourist Board is a public company that is a 100 per cent subsidiary of the City of Cologne. The Cologne chamber of commerce and industry represents the interests of around 12,000 companies in the districts of Cologne, Bergisches Land, and Rhein Erft. The city of Cologne provides an organisational environment for industrial tourism that reflects the fact that industrial tourism is no prime initiative of the city. Moreover, the IHK Cologne collaborates with public actors in the city of Bonn, with whom they commonly operate a regional economic development agency, the so called Cologne Bonn Business (CBB).
