What is the purpose and significance of developing sports tourism?

1, economic impact. The development of tourism resources and tourism industry is helpful to promote the optimization and adjustment of industrial structure. As the leading industry of the tertiary industry, tourism will greatly promote the development of the tertiary industry, and then adjust the proportion of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Developing tourism activities can bring foreign economic injection, help increase government tax revenue, and then enhance economic strength. In addition, the development of tourism can drive and promote the development of many related industries because of its large correlation and long chain. Developing tourism activities can increase employment opportunities and absorb a large number of social idle labor. ?

2. Social and cultural influence. Tourism itself is an activity in which people from different cultural traditions contact each other. The development of tourism resources and even the development of tourism activities will have an impact on social culture. Therefore, the development of tourism resources is not only conducive to protecting traditional culture, forming unique cultural characteristics and establishing a unique cultural image, but also conducive to enriching cultural connotations, cultivating culture and establishing a good subject image. Then the development of modern tourism activities has gradually become one of the important means of scientific and technological exchanges, such as business tourism, conference tourism and other activities, which can continuously increase the breadth and depth of scientific and technological exchanges.

3. Environmental impact. With the development of large-scale tourism activities, the tourism environment is bound to undergo profound changes. Specifically, the first is to repair and protect historical buildings and cultural sites. With the development of tourism activities, these historical and cultural heritages will be reborn. Second, the urban environment will be improved. With the development of tourism activities, environmental sanitation has been paid attention to and maintained; In order to facilitate the development of tourism activities, infrastructure and service facilities will continue to increase, and the living environment of residents will also be improved, which will play a positive role in the protection and improvement of the ecological environment.

On March 6, 20 1 1, the central government issued the Outline of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China, in which Chapter 16, "Vigorously developing the life service industry", consists of four sections, of which the second section is "actively developing tourism" and the fourth section is "comprehensively developing sports". It can be seen that both tourism and sports industries are determined by the central government.

Liu Peng, director of the State Sports General Administration, believes that sports tourism is a new leisure lifestyle with sports as its connotation and tourism as its carrier. Developing sports functions, making sports resources attractive to tourism and developing sports tourism products are of great significance to the development of sports tourism.