The Characteristics of Farmhouse Accommodation and Evolutionary Conditions for Green-tourism

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to clarify the evolutionary conditions for green-tourism based on the analysis of the activities and characteristics of the present stage of farmhouse accommodation in rural Hiroshima region. The farmhouse accommodation was compared with the non-farm house accommodation. However, I could not find any major features difterenciating farmhouse accommodation from the non-farm counterpart except for the capacity because the farmhouse accommodation was in a stable low equilibrium status operating part-time for skiers. This makes it difficult for them to proceed to a new satge at once. Thus I presented two types of green-tourism operator models, one is for the full-time operator such as with new entrants and the other is for part-time operator depending on the man-power and local available resources.