When Tourist Transport Becomes an Urban Attraction: Evidence from Bandung

Tourist transport is evaluated as access infrastructure, yet some urban modes also function as attractions. This article develops a framework identifying this shift. Drawing on transport-tourism literature and Bandros in Bandung, it finds that tourist transport becomes an attraction when movement exposes the city as a sequence of sights, the mode carries symbolic identity, interpretation turns travel into place-based narrative, and service governance makes the experience legible, safe, and reliable. Bandros provides an empirical plausibility check, while walking and cycling tours illustrate cross-mode applicability, suggesting that tourist transport should be planned as experiential mobility infrastructure.