Impact of Crisis and Resilience Communication on Destination Image and Tourists Behaviour
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Title: | Impact of Crisis and Resilience Communication on Destination Image and Tourists Behaviour |
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Authors: | Martínez-Sala, Alba-María | Huertas, Assumpció | Ferrer-Rosell, Berta | Marine-Roig, Estela |
Research Group/s: | Marketing Experiencial, Eventos y Comunicación Integrada (MAE-CO) | Envejecimiento y Comunicación (AgeCOM) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Comunicación y Psicología Social |
Keywords: | 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 |
Issue Date: | 22-Jun-2024 |
Publisher: | Profesional de la Información |
Citation: | Profesional de la información. 2024, 33(2): e320613. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2024.0203 |
Abstract: | 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. |
Sponsor: | This study was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, financed by the European Union - Next Generation EU, within the GASTROTUR project [Grant Id. TUR-RETOS2022-017] "Revaluation of destinations through the semiotic aspects of the gastronomic image and the content generated by tourists", and was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation within the RevTour project [Grant Id. PID2022-138564OA-I00] "Use of online reviews for tourism intelligence and for the establishment of transparent and reliable evaluation standards". |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/144401 |
ISSN: | 1386-6710 | 1699-2407 (Internet) |
DOI: | 10.3145/epi.2024.0203 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | Esta obra está bajo una licencia internacional Creative Commons Atribución 4.0. |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2024.0203 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - AgeCOM - Artículos de Revistas INV - MAE-CO - Artículos de Revistas |
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