Abstract
This paper tries to clarify the growing process of the tourist home managers in Gokayama Toyama Pref., based on the historical records and the interview surveys with eight tourist home managers. Findings are as follows: 1) the development process of Gokayama is classified into six periods, 2) the growing process of the tourist home managers is classified into four stages of "Motivation stage", "Self-awakening stage", "Growth stage", "Maturity stage", 3) they were growing up under the influences of the connections with local people in first and second stages, and under the influences of the valuations by visitors and the communications with visitors in third and fourth stages, 4) we could find the relations between the growing process of them and the changing process of the members of their families, their occupations and the arrangement of rooms in their houses.
