Rol de las relaciones públicas en los destinos turísticos que sufren atentados terroristas: análisis de la comunicación de crisis realizada en Londres, Mánchester y París tras los atentados de 2017
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Terrorist attacks have a negative impact on destination image, affecting their
tourism demand and generating a crisis in the tourism sector. The objective
of this article is to investigate how the Destination Marketing Organizations
(DMOs) of London, Manchester and Paris managed the crisis during and
after the terrorist attacks of 2017 from a Public Relations perspective. A content analysis method of the tweets published in the official account profiles
of said destinations was carried out during the 30 days that followed the terrorist attacks. Based on the existing literature on crisis communication, an
analysis template was developed that analysed the timing, format and content of the tweets, as well as the reactions they generated in the public. The
results indicate that the 3 DMOs focused their communication efforts on
the dissemination of messages to promote tourism in the region in order to
manage the crisis, but despite the fact that the public want to be informed
when an attack occurs to understand what happened and feel safe, DMOs
communicated little or nothing about what happened in the attack. In addition, the tweets that reported on the management of the attack carried out
and the protection of stakeholders were the ones that obtained the greatest reactions among the public. The main contributions of the study are the
analysis template created for the analysis of destinations’ crisis communication and the fact that public value the information received about the attack and the protection management carried out by the DMOs