Resumo: Tourism activity is highly sensitive to any situation that affects the safety of tourists. Through the attacks perpetrated in tourist destinations, terrorism has been given wide coverage in the media and has found a tool to pressure the governments of the affected countries. The media play a key role in transmitting events related to terrorism. This research studies the blight of terrorism in the tourist panorama of several countries and destinations. An analysis of the influence of the media on society and the interests related to the diffusion of this news is carried out. The research is conducted through a documentary analysis of news and statistical sources. This study shows that the media selects the news related to terrorism based on geographic, cultural and economic affinity; reports of European attacks tend to portray them as one-off occurrences that are under control and that most of the terrorist attacks occur outside the western area.
