Abstract: The current popularity of sports tourism suggests the necessity to put sports tourism under the rule of law. The development of sports tourism resources involves a wide range of resources, many subjects and great responsibilities. It requires that the sustainable development of sports tourism must first regulate its rationality and legitimacy from the perspective of resources development. Based on the principle of intergenerational equity in the development of sports tourism resources, the development of sports tourism resources are divided by means of logical reasoning, case analysis, interest measurement and substantive reasoning into three stages: sports tourism project planning, sports tourism project construction and sports tourism operation and management. The research holds that: the three stage can serve as the starting point to solve the problem of intra-generational and inter-generational equity in the development of sports tourism resources at each stage, and demonstrate and identify the rationality and legitimacy of the development of sports tourism resources from the perspectives of moral proposition and legal responsibility. It is hoped that this study can provide academic support for the rise and future development of sports tourism from the perspective of intergenerational equity in resource development.

Key words: sports tourism, resource development, intergenerational equity, moral proposition, legal responsibility