Destinations entering the lifecycle of maturity/stagnation typically cannot ensure economic sustainability with their traditional “transactional strategy”. Turning to the “relational strategy” that relies on loyal tourists may be a good alternative. Destination attachment is a critical concept for initiating and perpetuating revisits by loyal tourists. However, existing research has not focused on deriving attachment-triggered attributes and has failed to provide a systematic integration of different destination decision-making characteristics that are affected by the attachment level. This study identified twelve critical attachment-triggered destination attributes of Hainan based on the proposed “attachment level-based destination decision-making framework”, thereby contributing to the solution of existing theoretical and practical problems. Social network analysis was performed. The corresponding implications and limitations were discussed.

进入成熟/停滞生命周期的目的地通常无法通过其传统的“交易策略”来确保经济的可持续性。转向依赖忠诚游客的“关系战略”可能是一个不错的选择。目的地附件是忠实游客发起和永久性重新访问的关键概念。但是，现有研究并未集中于推导依附触发的属性，也未能提供受依附级别影响的不同目的地决策特征的系统集成。这项研究基于提出的“基于附件级别的目的地决策框架”，确定了海南12个关键的附件触发的目的地属性，从而为解决现有的理论和实践问题做出了贡献。进行了社交网络分析。讨论了相应的含义和局限性。