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This study aims to emphasize growing importance of the walking trail as a new creative tourism resource and to identify conceptual dimensions of the trail based on the tourism storytelling. For this purpose, this study investigates not only meaningful dimensions of tourism storytelling for Galmaetgill of Busan from the survey, but also the differences in these conceptual dimensions among the visitor type, gender, and interpreter involvement. The results of the study suggest that tourism storytelling is classified into three conceptual dimensions, including communicativeness, sensitivity, and locality. The t-tests show significant differences in communicativeness according to type of visitors and interpreter involvement while there is no significant difference in gender. Future study should develop extended conceptual dimensions by applying to other trails such as Dulregil of Mt. Jiri and Ollehgil of Jeju.