On the Development of Sports Tourism Resources

This paper discusses the characteristics, classification and development principles of sports tourism resources, focusing on its development model and countermeasures. It provides a reference for the development of sports tourism model and proposes with a sustainable vision to develop sports tourism. Sports tourism resources refers to the tourism activities can appeal to the sports tourists and regard the sports connotation as the content in the nature or human society. Exploited for tourism, it is the objects for sustainable development of sports tourism comprehensive benefits, such as economic, social and ecological benefits. The tourism and sports industry, have been regarded as two important industry categories of life and service to develop by the central government in the period of "Twelfth five-year". The integration development of tourism and sports industry has important significance to the development of these two industries and the overall development of our country. Liu Peng, the director of State General Administration of sports, thinks that sports tourism is a new leisure lifestyle with the sports as a connotation and with tourism as a carrier. As to how to develop play sports features that make the sports resources become a tourist attraction, as well as the development and research of sports tourism products, which has an important significance for the development of sports tourism.