Putting a stake in Dracula

Romania's publicity-friendly tourism minister, Dan Matei Agathon, is looking to give a lift to investment in the state-sponsored Dracula Park - a tourist trap inspired by the vampire. He plans to start trading Dracula Park shares on the Rasdaq exchange this month.

Romania’s publicity-friendly tourism minister, Dan Matei Agathon, is looking to give a lift to investment in the state-sponsored Dracula Park – a tourist trap inspired by the vampire. He plans to start trading Dracula Park shares on the Rasdaq exchange this month.

The tourism ministry wants to raise $100 million for the park, being built in Transylvania. PricewaterhouseCoopers is adviser to the project.

Agathon has nailed his own flag to the mast of the project. On its website he declares: “Dracula Park – the most spectacular tourism project at this beginning of this millennium – is about to become reality under the Made in Romania brand.

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