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This study aims to examine causal relationships among participation motivation, attraction attributes of religious tourism and satisfaction using factor analysis and multiple regression analysis. Results suggest that the concept of participation motivation was comprised 2 factors such as individual spirituality, religious knowledge as participation motivation factor. Besides, attraction attributes was composed of 3 factors such as experience of the holy spirit, feeling of holy sites and viewing of historic sites as attraction attributes factor. Only individual spirituality of participation motivation has positive effects on participation satisfaction. Experience of the holy spirit and feeling of holy sites of attraction attributes factor have positive effects on participation satisfaction. Based on the study results, there were significant connections between participation motivation, attraction attributes and participation satisfaction particularly.