Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Perspectives, structure, and conceptual framework -- 2 Features and Challenges of Rural tourism in Japan -- Part 2: Roles of Community-based Rural Tourism -- 3 Roles of Farm Pluriactivity on Multifunctional Agriculture in a Mountainous Rural Community -- 4 Roles of Farm...

As rural tourism evolves into diversification, the connection between the individual and local resource management is becoming an important issue for the sustainable evolution of rural tourism. To explore this point, we investigated conceptually and empirically whether rural tourism...