Consequently, Ilan's guesthouses have grown like mushrooms after rain. Chen Fang-liang, the founder of Yilan Holiday House (an alliance of legal guesthouses in Ilan) and the proprietor of the North Europe Holiday House, points out that in 2002 there were only nine legal guesthouses in Ilan. Today there are 200. If you included those guesthouses that are not legally registered, the current total would surpass 1000.
「宜蘭民宿合法經營者策略聯盟」發起人、「北歐民宿」的經營者沈芳蓮指出，民國 91 年，宜蘭的合法民宿只有 9 家，如今已有二百多家，若再加上沒有核准立案而非法經營的民宿，估計超過一千家。