Pub Date : 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101065
Marco A. Celdrán-Bernabéu , Jose-Norberto Mazón , David Giner-Sánchez , Juan Morales-García , María Pilar Peñarrubia-Zaragoza
Smart destinations are innovative destinations characterised by an intensive use of information technology (IT) to improve their decision-making processes. These destinations use IT (such as sensors, conversational agents, applications, etc.) to collect and analyse multidimensional data. Due to this use of technology, smart destinations are also data-producing centres whose open publication allows for more innovative destinations that enhance the development of value-added products and services for destination stakeholders. However, the relevant tourism destinations and administrations are still lacking clear results in this regard. This study analyses the current situation of open data in the context of smart destinations, as well as the barriers and opportunities for the open publication of the data they produce. To do so, qualitative and quantitative techniques are applied to the case study of the Network of Smart Tourist Destinations of the Valencian Community (Spain).
{"title":"Smart tourism destinations as open data providers: Barriers and opportunities","authors":"Marco A. Celdrán-Bernabéu , Jose-Norberto Mazón , David Giner-Sánchez , Juan Morales-García , María Pilar Peñarrubia-Zaragoza","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Smart destinations are innovative destinations characterised by an intensive use of information technology (IT) to improve their decision-making processes. These destinations use IT (such as sensors, conversational agents, applications, etc.) to collect and analyse multidimensional data. Due to this use of technology, smart destinations are also data-producing centres whose open publication allows for more innovative destinations that enhance the development of value-added products and services for destination stakeholders. However, the relevant tourism destinations and administrations are still lacking clear results in this regard. This study analyses the current situation of open data in the context of smart destinations, as well as the barriers and opportunities for the open publication of the data they produce. To do so, qualitative and quantitative techniques are applied to the case study of the Network of Smart Tourist Destinations of the Valencian Community (Spain).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101065"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145613702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101064
Siya Wang , Lingyuan Zhang , Qingqian Li , Yuning Wang
Slow live streaming of destinations is an emerging technological application in tourism that offers a low-narrative, real-time view of destinations. Unlike commercial live streaming, it minimizes editing, narration, and advertising, emphasizing continuous, unfiltered transmission of natural landscapes. This approach enhances viewers' sense of presence and immersion, creating a stronger emotional connection with the destination. This technology is particularly effective for remote or hard-to-access locations, reshaping public perceptions of such places. For example, Meili Snow Mountain, located on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and revered by local residents, was long inaccessible due to its rugged terrain. With network infrastructure installation and the rise of slow live streaming of destinations on platforms like TikTok and Kwai, virtual access to this once-hidden landscape is now possible. The socio-cultural impact of slow live streaming of destinations remains underexplored. Using Weber's concept of disenchantment, this paper examines how technology reshapes perceptions and dilutes traditional meanings. Based on five years of fieldwork in the Zang Plateau, this paper introduces the concept of digital disenchantment and re-enchantment to analyze changes in destination imagination and perception. The study finds: first, technical, social and psychological drivers all contribute to the development of slow live streaming of Meili Snow Mountain; second, three types of perception reflect the complexity of technology acceptance—Fostering Place Attachment (re-enchantment), Diminishing Mystique (disenchantment), and Sharing Sacredness (re-enchantment). The paper also discusses destination strategies to sustain tourism appeal in response to digital challenges.
{"title":"Slow live streaming of destinations: Enchantment and digital transformation in China's sacred mountains","authors":"Siya Wang , Lingyuan Zhang , Qingqian Li , Yuning Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101064","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Slow live streaming of destinations is an emerging technological application in tourism that offers a low-narrative, real-time view of destinations. Unlike commercial live streaming, it minimizes editing, narration, and advertising, emphasizing continuous, unfiltered transmission of natural landscapes. This approach enhances viewers' sense of presence and immersion, creating a stronger emotional connection with the destination. This technology is particularly effective for remote or hard-to-access locations, reshaping public perceptions of such places. For example, Meili Snow Mountain, located on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and revered by local residents, was long inaccessible due to its rugged terrain. With network infrastructure installation and the rise of slow live streaming of destinations on platforms like TikTok and Kwai, virtual access to this once-hidden landscape is now possible. The socio-cultural impact of slow live streaming of destinations remains underexplored. Using Weber's concept of disenchantment, this paper examines how technology reshapes perceptions and dilutes traditional meanings. Based on five years of fieldwork in the Zang Plateau, this paper introduces the concept of digital disenchantment and re-enchantment to analyze changes in destination imagination and perception. The study finds: first, technical, social and psychological drivers all contribute to the development of slow live streaming of Meili Snow Mountain; second, three types of perception reflect the complexity of technology acceptance—Fostering Place Attachment (re-enchantment), Diminishing Mystique (disenchantment), and Sharing Sacredness (re-enchantment). The paper also discusses destination strategies to sustain tourism appeal in response to digital challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101064"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145625377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101070
Tong Yang , Jinyan Chen , Jie Wu
Glamping, a new form of sustainable tourism that combines quality accommodation with nature, has gained increasing tourist attention. Existing research on glamping ignores the differential role of distinct attributes in the formation of tourist satisfaction and gives less consideration to the variation in market segmentation. To respond, this study proposed mixed text mining methods to explore glamping online reviews based on the three-factor theory. Results show that glamping attributes exert both linear and asymmetric impacts on tourist satisfaction (e.g. Facility is a Basic attribute, leading to dissatisfaction, but Cost performance is a Performance attribute, leading to both satisfaction and dissatisfaction). Such impacts showcase dynamics across tourist segments (families, couples, and friends): Scenery can efficiently enhance couples-tourists' satisfaction, but Food is the pivot key for triggering friends-tourists’ satisfaction. Strategies for balancing accommodation and nature attributes are also investigated. This research contributes to nature-based destination tourism research and advances the research paradigm using three-factor theory.
{"title":"Sustainable Harmony: Exploring the impact of glamping attributes on tourist satisfaction through mixed text mining techniques","authors":"Tong Yang , Jinyan Chen , Jie Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Glamping, a new form of sustainable tourism that combines quality accommodation with nature, has gained increasing tourist attention. Existing research on glamping ignores the differential role of distinct attributes in the formation of tourist satisfaction and gives less consideration to the variation in market segmentation. To respond, this study proposed mixed text mining methods to explore glamping online reviews based on the three-factor theory. Results show that glamping attributes exert both linear and asymmetric impacts on tourist satisfaction (e.g. Facility is a <em>Basic</em> attribute, leading to dissatisfaction, but Cost performance is a <em>Performance</em> attribute, leading to both satisfaction and dissatisfaction). Such impacts showcase dynamics across tourist segments (families, couples, and friends): Scenery can efficiently enhance couples-tourists' satisfaction, but Food is the pivot key for triggering friends-tourists’ satisfaction. Strategies for balancing accommodation and nature attributes are also investigated. This research contributes to nature-based destination tourism research and advances the research paradigm using three-factor theory.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101070"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101071
Jia-Qi Liu , Chang-Young Jeon , Hee-Won Yang
This study assesses the economic value of enhancing marine tourism environments in Sanya Bay, a major coastal destination in China significantly impacted by marine debris. It focuses on key environmental attributes and analyzes changes in per capita Marginal Willingness to Pay (MWTP) among three visitor groups: tourists, the relational population, and local residents. Utilizing a choice experiment and a mixed logit model applied to 746 valid responses, the results indicate that beach cleanliness is the most highly prioritized attribute across all groups. Coastal tourists demonstrated the highest MWTP for beach cleanliness, followed by water quality, while the relational population emphasized biodiversity. These results address critical environmental challenges in Sanya Bay by offering actionable insights into visitor preferences, informing resource allocation, and supporting sustainable marine tourism policies that balance ecological protection with economic development.
{"title":"Estimating marine tourism environment value using choice experiment","authors":"Jia-Qi Liu , Chang-Young Jeon , Hee-Won Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101071","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study assesses the economic value of enhancing marine tourism environments in Sanya Bay, a major coastal destination in China significantly impacted by marine debris. It focuses on key environmental attributes and analyzes changes in per capita Marginal Willingness to Pay (MWTP) among three visitor groups: tourists, the relational population, and local residents. Utilizing a choice experiment and a mixed logit model applied to 746 valid responses, the results indicate that beach cleanliness is the most highly prioritized attribute across all groups. Coastal tourists demonstrated the highest MWTP for beach cleanliness, followed by water quality, while the relational population emphasized biodiversity. These results address critical environmental challenges in Sanya Bay by offering actionable insights into visitor preferences, informing resource allocation, and supporting sustainable marine tourism policies that balance ecological protection with economic development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"40 ","pages":"Article 101071"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145598965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101068
Guofang Shi, Caijiao Lu, Haili Shen, Yuan Tian, Shun Ye
The rural boutique homestay has gained popularity in burgeoning markets, owing to its distinctive character which fosters unique tourism experiences. However, as a distinctive genre of rural accommodation, the symbolic attributes of rural boutique homestays have rarely been examined. Grounded in the concept of brand personality, this study captures their distinctiveness by identifying prominent personality traits perceived by consumers. A sequence of three studies were conducted. The first two studies yielded a 21-item, five-dimensional personality scale (Homeliness, Nostalgia, Cultural-Humanity, Retreat, and Leisure-Ease). These five factors were subsequently employed in a third sub-study to segment tourists, revealing four distinct clusters with differential pursuits: Leisure-Ease Life Seekers, Cultural-Humanity Questers, Nostalgia Minders, and Retreat/Nostalgia Consumers. The profile of each segment was delineated, and key differences were identified. This study extends personality theory into the hospitality context and offers significant marketing implications.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101067
Michael Volgger , Ross Taplin
There is limited research on which type of marketing messages tourism destinations should use in promoting a reduced risk to visitors' health. The aim of this paper is to analyse if and how communicating successful health management during a health crisis increases the attractiveness of a tourism destination in the recovery stage. The study applied a randomised experimental design to test the effectiveness of different marketing messages on international tourists' visit intentions at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study surveyed 509 potential tourists from Singapore, Malaysia, India, UK and New Zealand regarding their intention to visit Western Australia after the COVID-19 induced border closures had ended in 2022. The results show that, depending on tourist characteristics, intention to visit was increased with communicating the destination's health performance, vaccination rates, and a complimentary travel insurance. The findings hence suggest that factual safety-centred marketing communication can support tourism destinations in the recovery from a health crisis. This implies that tourism marketers should consider the possibility to communicate competences and successes in health management proactively to tourists.
{"title":"Can destination marketing capitalise on health management?","authors":"Michael Volgger , Ross Taplin","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is limited research on which type of marketing messages tourism destinations should use in promoting a reduced risk to visitors' health. The aim of this paper is to analyse if and how communicating successful health management during a health crisis increases the attractiveness of a tourism destination in the recovery stage. The study applied a randomised experimental design to test the effectiveness of different marketing messages on international tourists' visit intentions at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study surveyed 509 potential tourists from Singapore, Malaysia, India, UK and New Zealand regarding their intention to visit Western Australia after the COVID-19 induced border closures had ended in 2022. The results show that, depending on tourist characteristics, intention to visit was increased with communicating the destination's health performance, vaccination rates, and a complimentary travel insurance. The findings hence suggest that factual safety-centred marketing communication can support tourism destinations in the recovery from a health crisis. This implies that tourism marketers should consider the possibility to communicate competences and successes in health management proactively to tourists.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101067"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145553572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Despite its widespread use in destination marketing practice, studies focusing on animal and celebrity animal endorsement is currently limited. This study expands the endorsement theory by addressing the issue of animal endorsement in destination marketing. Study 1 employed content analysis to code comment data on 20 popular giant panda videos, identifying five key effective animal endorser characteristics: cuteness, anthropomorphism, uniqueness, intimacy, and healing power. Based on questionnaire data and empirical tests, study 2 verified a model of animal endorsement in destination marketing. Results revealed that all five characteristics of animal endorser positively influenced travel intention through the mediation of parasocial interaction. This work provides important theoretical contributions to destination marketing through animal endorsement, offering actionable insights for marketers in selecting appropriate animal endorsers for destinations.
{"title":"Animal endorsement in destination marketing: Evidence and insights from giant pandas","authors":"Xue Fang , Jun Yu , Chaowu Xie , Songshan (Sam) Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite its widespread use in destination marketing practice, studies focusing on animal and celebrity animal endorsement is currently limited. This study expands the endorsement theory by addressing the issue of animal endorsement in destination marketing. Study 1 employed content analysis to code comment data on 20 popular giant panda videos, identifying five key effective animal endorser characteristics: cuteness, anthropomorphism, uniqueness, intimacy, and healing power. Based on questionnaire data and empirical tests, study 2 verified a model of animal endorsement in destination marketing. Results revealed that all five characteristics of animal endorser positively influenced travel intention through the mediation of parasocial interaction. This work provides important theoretical contributions to destination marketing through animal endorsement, offering actionable insights for marketers in selecting appropriate animal endorsers for destinations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101069"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145546339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-16DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101066
Cristobal Barra , Ignacio Vargas , Eduardo Torres-Moraga
Although destination brand experience is central to tourists’ evaluations and behaviors, little is known about how repeated visits shape that experience. We examine whether and why destination experience declines as the number of visits increases and propose a novelty-reduction account whereby repeated visits can reduce perceived novelty and hedonic stimulation, leading to a fading effect. Two complementary studies test this account. Study 1 (n = 372) surveys outbound tourists across destinations to estimate the direct and moderated effects of prior visits on each experience dimension. Study 2 (n = 900) focuses on inbound tourists to a single destination to replicate and extend the analysis with moderated-mediation models. The results show that a greater number of prior visits is associated with weaker sensory, affective, behavioral, and intellectual experiences among international (but not domestic) tourists and indirectly reduces destination love, enthusiasm, and endorsement through these experience dimensions. The findings position the number of visits as a useful segmentation variable for destination marketing. In practice, destination management organizations can sustain engagement and attachment by curating differentiated itineraries for first-time vs repeat international visitors and by rotating distinctive experiences designed to refresh perceived novelty.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-14DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101063
Thomas Bausch , Florian Ortanderl
Understanding how destinations establish a distinctive image is central to destination branding research. While uniqueness is often considered a core component of destination brand equity, empirical evidence on how image attributes truly differentiate destinations remains limited. This study addresses this gap by investigating the extent to which perceived image attributes contribute to destination differentiation within a mature and highly competitive tourism context. Using ten leading Italian ski resorts as a case study, nineteen cognitive, affective, and symbolic image attributes were analyzed through an integrated application of ANOVA and profile analysis. This combined approach enables both the detection of significant attribute-level differences and the assessment of overall image profile similarity. The findings reveal strong similarities across resorts, with only minor and statistically weak variations. These results challenge the assumption that attribute-based uniqueness acts as a key differentiator and demonstrate the predominance of holistic destination impressions. The study contributes methodologically by highlighting the analytical value of combining ANOVA and profile analysis and provides managerial guidance for ski destinations in mature markets to build segment-specific image profiles based on distinct attribute combinations or leadership in selected attributes.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101061
Wee Kheng Tan , Yu-Min Wei
Restoring tourist flows to earthquake-stricken destinations as quickly as possible is a top priority in post-disaster recovery strategies. Drawing on leisure constraint theory, travel motivation theory, and emotion regulation theory, this study investigates how tourists' post-earthquake travel motivations, leisure constraints, and attraction visit intentions shape their adaptive emotion regulation strategies towards an earthquake-stricken destination (i.e. perceiving such destinations positively). Partial least squares analysis was applied to data from 291 respondents concerning Hualien, a popular tourist destination in Taiwan that was severely impacted by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on April 3, 2024. Findings indicate that travel motivations exert a substantially stronger influence on adaptive emotion regulation strategies than leisure constraints. Strategies involving active ‘doing-away’ (i.e. reframing) of the earthquake context are primarily driven by travel motivations, whereas strategies based on comparing the earthquake to other negative situations to downplay its perceived severity are mostly affected by leisure constraints. Moreover, financial incentives were found to enhance positive perceptions of earthquake-affected destinations by promoting the use of positive reappraisal and positive refocusing strategies. In addition to their constraining role, leisure constraints also demonstrate enabling potential by contributing to tourists' intentions to visit affected attractions.
{"title":"What can emotion regulation theory offer in understanding how tourists can react positively to tourist destinations hit by natural disasters?","authors":"Wee Kheng Tan , Yu-Min Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101061","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101061","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Restoring tourist flows to earthquake-stricken destinations as quickly as possible is a top priority in post-disaster recovery strategies. Drawing on leisure constraint theory, travel motivation theory, and emotion regulation theory, this study investigates how tourists' post-earthquake travel motivations, leisure constraints, and attraction visit intentions shape their adaptive emotion regulation strategies towards an earthquake-stricken destination (i.e. perceiving such destinations positively). Partial least squares analysis was applied to data from 291 respondents concerning Hualien, a popular tourist destination in Taiwan that was severely impacted by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on April 3, 2024. Findings indicate that travel motivations exert a substantially stronger influence on adaptive emotion regulation strategies than leisure constraints. Strategies involving active ‘doing-away’ (i.e. reframing) of the earthquake context are primarily driven by travel motivations, whereas strategies based on comparing the earthquake to other negative situations to downplay its perceived severity are mostly affected by leisure constraints. Moreover, financial incentives were found to enhance positive perceptions of earthquake-affected destinations by promoting the use of positive reappraisal and positive refocusing strategies. In addition to their constraining role, leisure constraints also demonstrate enabling potential by contributing to tourists' intentions to visit affected attractions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101061"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145416750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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