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The purpose of this study is to investigate the cause-effect relationship between creating a love-mark through storytelling on tourist sites, focusing on 'Suwon Hwaseong Fortress' designated as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage and it is aiming at verifying the relationship on how the love-mark influences on level of satisfaction and loyalty of tourists. In order to accomplish the purpose of the study, the questionnaires were distributed to the tourists visiting Suwon Hwaseong to obtain 259 final copies for facilitating in the study and SPSS.18.0 Program was used for the analysis. Following is the summary of result of this study. First, from the factors of storytelling on tourist sites, it was analyzed that the education factor, description, uniqueness, and sensitivity had a significant positive effect on creating the love-mark for tourists. Second, the love-mark is shown to provide positive (+) influence on the level of satisfaction and loyalty of tourists for the lower factors of the love-mark with respect to the cause-effect relationship on the tourist satisfaction and loyalty. And third, the analysis showed that the satisfaction level of the tourists influences positively on the loyalty as a result of verifying the cause-effect relationship of satisfaction on loyalty of the tourists.