Proceedings of the Asia Tourism Forum 2016 - the 12th Biennial Conference of Hospitality and Tourism Industry in Asia

The Potential Ghost Tour in Bandung

Authors
Dini Rahmawati
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Dini Rahmawati
Available Online May 2016.
DOI
10.2991/atf-16.2016.81How to use a DOI?
Keywords
dark tourism; ghost tour
Abstract

Bandung has places which are believed to be haunted. Those places become spooky for their stories related to miserable death, accidents and myth. Gradually, they have drawn attention of people to visit memorizing miserable past events, but at night. This article explores how this potential ghost tour is produced, performed and consumed. As the lightest form of dark tourism, this tour provides different experience of entertainment since the operator tries to present real ghost to tourists by using their supernatural power. Ghost tour in Bandung involves occults as the attraction of the tour and this have arisen curiosity of people on the invisible creature which is believed to be exist.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Asia Tourism Forum 2016 - the 12th Biennial Conference of Hospitality and Tourism Industry in Asia
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
May 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-201-5
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/atf-16.2016.81How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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