Consideration of Expanding the Regional Experience Seekers to Distant Regions

Abstract

With the decline in population and the aging of the population, the “Regional Experience Seekers” has been attracting attention, but most of them remain involved only in the area around their place of residence. Therefore, it can be said that although the Regional Experience Seekers can be obtained in areas surrounding metropolitan areas where there are many residents, they are in short supply in areas far from metropolitan areas that need bearers. Therefore, in this study, from the perspective of expanding their involvement to distant areas, we ascertained the current situation and conducted an analysis to expand their involvement. As a result, we found that the higher their income, the more they visit distant areas. Our analysis also suggested that while many of them chose “work-related” as the reason for visiting distant areas, altruistic reasons such as “my companion and the people I am staying with are happy” were influential in their continued involvement.