(Department of Physical Education,Guangdong Medical College,Zhanjiang 524023,China) Abstract: Low carbon sports tourism will become a new economic growth point for the sports tourism industry. The necessity to develop low carbon sports tourism mainly embodies in 4 aspects: the entire sports tourism industrial chain needs to save energy and reduce exhaust discharge; traditional sports tourism is lacking in a power mechanism for sustainable development; the requirements of traditional sports tourism and low carbon sports tourism are sig-nificantly different; the conception of low carbon sports tourism has not been sufficiently recognized by the whole society. Measures for developing low carbon sports tourism mainly include the followings: establish the environ-mental protection conception of low carbon sports tourism; build a low carbon sports tourism stimulation mecha-nism; perfect the green operating mode of low carbon sports tourism; strengthen the uniting and mutually assisting mechanism of the entire sports tourism industrial chain; cultivate management professionals in the low carbon sports tourism area. Key words: sport economics;sports tourism;low carbon economy |