| Sports tourism is an emerging industry in China,as the 2008 Olympic Games successfully held began to rapid development.Today,sports tourism has been paid attention to by the national government departments,people’s pursuit and academic attention.Government departments from the beginning of the grasp of tourism,grasping sports,and gradually transition to focus on the integration of sports and tourism development.In recent years,the introduction of a series of related policies,such as the December 31,2014 national of the "State Council on promoting the reform and development of tourism" in May 2016,the State Sports General Administration and the National Tourism Bureau signed the "on the promotion of sports tourism fusion development cooperation agreement",November 28,2016,the State Council issued 85 "on the further expansion of the tourism culture and sports education and training in areas such as health and pension spending" and in December22,2016,the National Tourism Administration and the State Sports General Administration again issued "on the development of sports tourism force guidance" etc.Policy clearly pointed out that we should actively promote the integration of sports and tourism development,and vigorously develop the sports tourism industry.The introduction of major policies fully confirmed the importance of national sports tourism.In addition,with the improvement of life quality,change the concept of leisure,leisure tourism development mode dominated by the static model to the dynamic participation in tourism,entertainment,and people’s health awareness and awareness of green tourism is gradually improving,sports tourism conforms to the demands of the people,sought after by the people.Under the background of national support and social practice,scholars pay more and more attention to sports tourism,sports tourism has become the focus of attention of researchers in China.In this context,foreign sports tourism research started earlier,there are many worthy of ourreference,so this study will use this "Sport Tourism" to a situation of foreign research on sports tourism,based on in-depth understanding of the situation of foreign research on sports tourism,sports tourism research to our country to reference.This paper mainly adopts the methods of literature,statistics and content analysis of "Sport Tourism" of literature and books in the reference literature and domestic sports tourism related literatures from the following seven parts:The first part,mainly from the research background,literature review,research purpose and significance,research objects,research methods and research innovations,research limitations and the Sport Tourism,the specific situation of several aspects.The second part,the paper introduces the history of the sports tourism research abroad,and according to the collected data in our study abroad the research course of sports tourism made phased division,overseas sports tourism research process can be divided into the early stage,development stage and the flourishing stage three stage.Abroad in the third part,from the literature analysis of sports tourism research institute of the main research methods,combined with statistical method to organize the results found that foreign research methods mainly include mathematical statistics method,questionnaire survey method,literature research and model building method,case study method.The fourth part explores the foreign sports team and the status of the academic position of tourism research,researchers found that the distribution of relatively concentrated,presented the situation,led by the United States,Britain,and academic positions also displays diverse characteristics,and has a special academic exchange platform.The fifth part,the paper analyzes the main research fields of sports tourism research abroad,found the foreign sports tourism research field mainly includes sports with tourism research,involved in the research of tourism,sports tourism service quality research and sports tourism market management and personnel management research,after the analysis carried out for all areas of research,research conclusions are obtained.The sixth part of sports tourism at home and abroad research status of the difference analysis,found that the sports tourism at home and abroad and research the differences mainly include cognitive differences,research methods,research team and the difference of position difference and research in the field of differences betweenthe four aspects,to our country sports tourism research to enlightenment based on the analysis of.The seventh part,combined with the first six part of the analysis of the situation,the research conclusion,mainly include the following:(1)foreign sports tourism research with practice gradually;(2)using a combination of foreign sports tourism research focus on a variety of research methods,research system has become mature,the quality of the research results can play a decisive role;(3)research related to sports and tourism and the relationship between participants and service quality,market management,personnel management in five areas,the research focus on consumer’s subjective feelings,embodies the foreign sports tourism research focus on "people-oriented" principle;(4)foreign sports tourism research team and academic fields are mostly concentrated in the United States and the United Kingdom,and in the fields of sports and Tourism,the overall diversified the characteristics,consistent with the nature of interdisciplinary sports tourism,the nature of the subject is the precondition to sports tourism sports tourism research;(5)single cognition,research methods,research perspective,research team and academic positions in the domestic and international research on sports tourism differences,which pays attention to the research of diversification is the key to the future of sports tourism development in China. |