An Australian ghost tour company has ceased visits to the forest where a notorious serial killer buried the remains of young backpackers, following a backlash over the idea which has been labelled “horrendous”.

Goulburn Ghost Tours recently added the night-time visits to the Belanglo State Forest, where killer Ivan Milat dumped the bodies of young travellers more than 20 years ago, to its other tours.

But it said late on Tuesday that the “extreme terror tour” to Belanglo, southwest of Sydney, where the bodies of two Britons, three Germans and two Australians were found in the 1990s, were cancelled for good.

“From here on in, we will not be running Belanglo tours,” Louise Edwards told Channel Ten’s The Project.

Edwards said ghost tours were controversial, because “people believe in ghosts or they don’t so we are used to a little bit of controversy”.

Milat is serving consecutive life sentences for the murders of the seven backpackers which horrified Australia, and New South Wales state Premier Mike Baird described the tours as “completely and utterly outrageous”.

“It’s not only in bad taste, it’s just terrible,” he said on Tuesday. “Horrendous.”

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