The article analyzes the existing approaches to the definition of the concepts of scientific tourism and popular science tourism. The author’s definition of popular science tourism is given. The main tourist resources of popular science tourism in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District have been identified. It has been established that despite the availability of resources, popular science tours in the region have not been developed. The availability of resources allows us to talk about the prospects for the development of popular science tourism in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.