Although Paranormal Tourism concept was mentioned recently, actually it is a kind of tourism that has been practicing for long time. The monster hunting tours to the Loch Ness Lake, the UFO tours to the Roswell city, haunted castle tours in Scotland and the tours to the places where Jack the ripper murdered can be considered as Paranormal Tourism. With this study it is aimed the contribution of supernatural and historical cases in Balkans to the improvements in tourism related with the concept of paranormal tourism. In this context Balkans is the most convenient region for the paranormal tourism. It is believed that the most famous vampires in history Count Dracula lived in Transylvania that belongs to this territory. Although the history and the myth engaged in this story people continue to believe it. Nowadays still Balkan people believe that there are some death people who go out from their graves and disturb people. Geographically Balkans that is associated with the popular concepts such as vampires, zombies and aliens can use this speciality in order to take attention for the advertisement and economic development of the region related with the paranormal tourism.
Journal Section | IJTEBS |
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Publication Date | December 30, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 1 Issue: 2 |