(Department of Physical Education,Changjiang Normal College,Chongqing 408003,China) Abstract: By means of questionnaire survey, the authors investigated and analyzed the outdoor activity and relaxa-tion demand of residents in Chengdu and Chongqing cities, and revealed the following findings: the residents, who are females, unmarried officers, or employees of enterprises or institutions, having a bachelor degree or higher and an annual income between 50,000 and 70,000 Yuan, like outdoor activities and relaxation more; the residents, who prefer outdoor activities and relaxation, are significantly different from ordinary residents in terms of tourism re-source favorite, tourism activity preference, purchase behavior, information acquisition channel and traveling man-ner; the residents prefer scenery appreciation, sports fun, travel joy as well as outdoor activities and relaxation; compared with females and married people, males and unmarried people prefer to acquire outdoor sport and tourism related information from the internet; while females collect information not only from the internet, but also from relatives, friends, newspapers and magazines, which are their favorite channels. Based on the said findings, the au-thor probed into the development of products for outdoor activities and relaxation, analyzed the trend of develop-ment of outdoor activity and relaxation tourism in the future, and put forward corresponding measures and sugges-tions for developing products for outdoor sports activity tourism. Key words: social sports;outdoor activity;sports demand;Chengdu and Chongqing |