Opened in the earlier seventies it was overrun by tourists. Though Count Dracula never went there it looks as if everything would remember of his supernatural presence. During one tour 11 Englishmen paid 8000 dollars each for the right to stand on the roof of Bran castle at night and howl. In summer lots of busses stop in Bran and there a hotel was built especially to host foreign tourists. However Count Dracula had nothing to do with this edifice.
Bran castle is simply an invention.
First because Stoker's description is based on the Stains Castle in Cruden Bay, a small fishers' village in Scotland, where the novelist used to spend his holiday from 1893 to 1910. The historical figure Vlad Tepes never went to Bran and his real castle stands 20 kilometres away from Curtea de Arges , that is to say approximately 100 kilometres away from Bran. In the 15th century it was almost completely destroyed and now we can only see some hilltop ruins overlooking the Arges River. In Sighis oara, a medieval Transylvanian town, the house where Vlad Tepes was born is still there and was turned out into a restaurant. For sure, though Dracula is only a myth, it keeps influencing a lot the image of Transylvania which is still full of prejudices.