Tourists travel for a variety of reasons –for business, leisure, or for nature excursions. Then, there’s science tourism! Ranked 4th on a very short list of top 8 science tourism destinations, the CERN Research Center in Geneva, Switzerland is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest, fastest particle accelerator in the world! (8 Great Science Tourism Destinations)
As the European Organization for Nuclear Research and one of the world’s most famous science facility, its mission is “to advance human knowledge, to continue an endless quest to learn where we come from and why the Universe is as we see it today.” For the science tourist and science associations, the CERN is one of the reasons why many visit Geneva!
If you have plans to visit Geneva, be sure to check out the free tours, although spots run out quickly. Meeting planners, guess what? You can hold your next event there!
Read on a science tourist’s experience at CERN here.
