2020 年 56 巻 4 号 p. 135-142
Recently, farmer inns have been increasing in many rural areas in Japan. We hypothesize that this could be due to their deregulation in 2003, and the Children & Agricultural Communities Interaction Project (CACIP) in 2008. This study analyzes their intentions and features at the time of starting a farmer inn business, comparing before deregulation and after CACIP. The data analysis reveals the following: 1) Interaction of people is a prerequisite for starting a farmer inn. 2) The execution of various policies differs among an increase in farmer inns; those who started such a business before the deregulation simply wanted to gain economic advantage. On the other hand, those who started after CACIP and aimed at vitalization of their local communities and sympathized the experience-based education tours is increased.