Hou Jing-shoung, chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Tunghai University, says that tourist factories have succeeded in revitalizing sunset industries in industrialized countries, and cites Germany's Ruhr industrial hub and the Netherlands 'Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles as cases in point.
東海大學景觀學系教授兼系所主任侯錦雄指出，在已開發工業國家，觀光工廠已是復甦夕陽產業的法寶。德國的「魯爾工業區」與荷蘭的「台夫特藍陶」，正是成功的典範。