Impact of Crisis and Resilience Communication on Destination Image and Tourists Behaviour

Autores/as

  • Alba-María Martínez-Sala University of Alicante Department of Communication and Social Psychology School of Economic and Business Sciences San Vicente del Raspeig Road 03690 Alicante, Spain
  • Assumpció Huertas Rovira i Virgili University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Communication Avgda. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain
  • Berta Ferrer-Rosell University of Lleida Faculty of Law, Economics and Tourism Department of Economics and Business Jaume II, 73. 25001 Lleida, Spain
  • Estela Marine-Roig University of Lleida Faculty of Law, Economics and Tourism Department of Economics and Business Jaume II, 73. 25001 Lleida, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2024.0203

Palabras clave:

Communication Strategies, Crisis Communication, Crisis Management, Destination Image, Destination Marketing Organization, Destination Recommendation, Facebook, Pandemics, Resilience Communication, Perceived Health Risk, Post Impression, Social Media, Social Networks, Tourism, Visit Intention

Resumen

Resilience communication is a fundamental tool for destinations to improve their image and recover after a crisis. Social media are also important tools for tourism communication and for creating tourist experiences and destination image. Therefore, social media are key tools for crisis communication. Based on a series of hypotheses, this paper proposes a conceptual model of crisis communication management that responds to the need to establish a set of premises related to resilience communication in the tourism sector. The empirical analytical study consisted of the quantitative analysis of the results of a survey questionnaire applied to test the hypotheses based on the formulation of a structural equation model. The results demonstrate the importance of social media communication in Perceived Health Risk (PHR) and its effect on perceived impressions, destination image, and related behavioral responses (Destination Recommendation, DR, and Visit Intention, VI). The four hypotheses in the research model have been confirmed, as the effects are statistically significant in a sample of posts analyzed, and the selected items explain every one of the factors. Specifically, the analysis shows that PHR negatively affects Destination Image (DI) and, in a stronger way, Post Impression (PI). Secondly, PI and DI influence one another and covary to some extent. Moreover, the overall DI, which has been affected by PHR, in turn affects DR and VI, demonstrating that PHR in communication ultimately influences DR and VI negatively too. Finally, is also verified both DR and VI are related and covary as intrinsic behavioral aspects related to DI. Resilience communication is a basic tool for destinations to improve their image and recover after a crisis and this research contributes to the literature on the subject by analyzing the impact of this communication on tourists, and specifically on destination image.

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Publicado

2024-06-22

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Martínez-Sala, A.-M., Huertas, A., Ferrer-Rosell, B., & Marine-Roig, E. (2024). Impact of Crisis and Resilience Communication on Destination Image and Tourists Behaviour. Profesional De La información, 33(2). https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2024.0203

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Artí­culos de investigación / Research articles