Teadusturismi pioneeriks Eestis võib pidada Artur Toomi (1884–1942).
Teadusturistide tuntud külastuskohtade hulka kuuluvad näiteks Nobel Prize Museum (Stockholm, Rootsi); Heureka (Vantaa, Soome); Science Museum (London); University Observatory Vienna (Austria); Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology (Milaano, Itaalia); Kennedy Space Center (Meritt Island / Cape Canaveral, USA, Florida); Montreal Science Centre (Kanada); National Science Centre (Delhi, India) ja palju teised teadusturismi huviväärsused.
Science tourism is most often depicted as a niche or special interest tourism within other forms of tourism,such as exploration and adventure tourism, cultural tourism, volunteer tour-ism, nature-based tourism, ecotourism or learning and educational tourism.
