Dracula tour, Preferred Tourist Doghouse Local Residents

BUCHAREST - Romania is famous for the story of Dracula, believed to have a castle in Transylvania Romania. Romanian government then uses the mythical tale to attract tourists, but it was not approved by the local community.

Romanian Federation of Tourism and Service this week announced it will conduct a campaign to attract tourists to 'sell' the story of a mythical creature, Dracula. The federation called Transylvania as the most promising destination in Romania.

Dracula and Transylvania popularity originated from a story in Bram Stroker novel, Dracula, worldwide. This novel has been filmed and became the basis of modern vampire fiction.

Although this novel into the early popularity of Transylvania in the eyes of tourists, even locals are not happy. Government's efforts to exploit the vampire legend never got along with people.

Exactly 10 years ago, the Government of Romania plans to make a vampire-themed playground near Bucharest, capital of Romania. However, these efforts failed because can not find investors to finance it. Even this playground plan then moved to Transylvania, but nevertheless not been built.

In the story of the novel Dracula was inspired by Vlad the Impaler, Prince of Romania centuries ago. This makes the government exploiting people disagree as Vlad Dracula story has been that they are regarded as heroes fighting for freedom, not a blood-sucking creature.

However, Romania's Tourism Federation believes public opinion will change. "People will understand that the legend of Dracula will be a vehicle to promote and advance the tourism economy," said Dan Matei Agathon, President of the Federation of Tourism Romania, as quoted by IBTimes, Friday (07/19/2013).

Lombok More Popular Than Hawaii

About the world's favorite vacation spots, Lombok is more popular than Hawaii and Tahiti.

At least according to the results of the analysis Prapancha Research (PR) against 4,113,072 chirp in social media twitter about vacation spots during the two-year period 2011-4 July 4 July 2013.

Executive Director of Research Geger Prapancha Riyanto in Depok, on Sunday (7/7), said Lombok reached five times better known than Hawaii and Tahiti, two sites world-renowned tropical island holiday.

"Lombok with 2,549,505 chirp mention on twitter universe around the world. Was beyond the reach Hawaii mention 433 812 or more than five-fold and beyond Tahiti to mention the 232 687 or more than ten-fold," he said.

Other researchers Adi PR Akhdiat explain the research team deliberately chose Hawaii and Tahiti as the two islands are so popular because they are often mentioned in the film as well as foreign magazines.

However, the findings of conversation that happens on the field that turned out surprisingly Lombok who had never heard of the Hollywood movies, even more popular. He explained that the team also chose Lombok instead of Bali, because Bali is assumed to be known for more than Lombok, but the result was beyond expectations.

Not only Lombok, the same research found a number of tourist areas in Indonesia was more popular in the region than other parts of the world. Among them, Mount Kelimutu is located on the island of Flores, NTT, Lake Toba and Borobudur.

The research results indicate that although far from the spotlight of the media and publication and has not supported the promotion of efficient, Indonesia in practice prove to be discussed everywhere as a favorite tourist sites globally.