Forget Cultural Integrity! Screw Taste! We Want Our Dracula Theme Park!
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.02.02 | 8:27 PM ET
You’ve got to hand it to the bullheaded people in the Romanian tourism ministry. They have a vision. They have a dream. Never mind that the United Nations now says their idea is simply awful; that it probably lacks taste and will likely rob a Romanian city of its culture. The Romanian tourism honchos insist they want to build a Dracula theme park: a place where people from all walks of life can celebrate the 15th century count who inspired Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” buy plastic fangs and polyester capes and generally spend gobs and gobs of bani.
According to a report on CNN, a survey conducted next month will decide the plan’s fate, not the complaints of UNESCO and other organizations.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
printing brochures 05.21.07 | 3:01 PM ET
As far as I know Romanians were mocking the tourism minister because he was all talk and no action. The Dracula Theme Park isn’t on politicians agenda anymore.
Oli 01.18.08 | 2:13 AM ET
Yes, I think that they are no longer planning it. I don’t think it’s a bad idea to build one, just not on any unesco sites. That would be insane.