Chapter ‘Tap-Tap’, a Journey through Haiti, and an Original Form of Destination Narrative How to cite this work. Seraphin, H, Cadet R & Korstanje M. 2022. Tap-Tap, a journey through Haiti, and and original form or destination image. In Tourism Safety and Security Just After COVID-19. Korstanje M (ed). Hauppauge, Nova Science Publishers, US. Hugues Seraphin 1,2, , Raulin L. Cadet 2,† and Maximiliano E. Korstanje 3,‡ 1 The University of Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, UK 2 Centre de Recherche en Gestion et en Économie du Développement (CREGED) Université Quisqueya, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 3 University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina Abstract The hypothesis of this study is that the tap-tap expresses the narrative of the destination and naturally the research question is a follows: Can tap- tap be considered as tourism tool? Discourse analysis is increasingly concerned with images (visual documents) as texts. This approach is all the more relevant to this study as much of tourism is about image. This book chapter analyses the messages written on tap-tap which can be considered as travel writing due to the fact that it conveys some (unsettling and contradicting) information about the destination. Tap- tap does not meet all the criteria (ethos, logos and pathos) for good travel writing, but meet at least one of them, namely logos. The main limitation of tap-taps as travel writing is based on the fact that the messages are not understood by visitors, which also means that tap-taps are not influencing tool. The findings of this study reinforce the idea  Corresponding Author’s Email: hugues.seraphin@winchester.ac.uk. † Corresponding Author’s Email: raulin.cadet@uniq.edu.ht. ‡ Corresponding Author’s Email: mkorst@palermo.edu.