Low carbon evaluation of sports tourism resources is of great significance for promoting the economic benefits of sports tourism industry, increasing tourists' awareness of green tourism and improving the environment for sustainable development of sports tourism. On the basis of constructing the PSR framework system, this paper evaluated the development potential of sports tourism resources in the core economic zone in the upper reaches of Yellow River Basin from the carbon neutrality background by using AHP, questionnaire survey and mathematical calculation model. On this basis, the ecological cooperation strategies of strengthening the low–carbon sports tourism resources in the study area have been proposed. And from the angle of establishing tourism cooperation areas, it will develop a typical ecological sports tourism landscape model with Lanzhou, Xining and Yinchuan as lines. In order to make important contributions to the low–carbon development of the Yellow River Basin, and also provide a reference for the rational development of regional sports tourism resources.

Zhang Xichen, Chen Fengying. Evaluation of development potential of sports tourism resources under the carbon neutrality background: Empirical study on the core economic zone in the upper reaches of Yellow River Basin. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 2: 24-28. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.050205.

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