ABSTRACT
In the preceding chapters I introduced the Draculas of fiction and history. As Chapter 2 noted, popular interest in the fictional Dracula grew rapidly from the 1960s onwards, spawning a broader and vigorous vampire subculture, particularly (but not exclusively) in America. Since international tourism was also expanding and diversifying in the 1960s it is not surprising that some Dracula enthusiasts sought to extend their interest to their holidaymaking. This led some people – mostly from Western countries – to Transylvania on their own search for the sites and sights associated with both Stoker’s Count Dracula, and Vlad the Impaler This chapter examines the development of this form of tourism (which hereafter I refer to as ‘Dracula tourism’).
