Abstract:

As a breakthrough point for the new urbanization, sports poverty alleviation, and the reform of sports industry supply side, the development of sports towns is becoming a research focus. On the basis of clarifying the connotations of sports town, this present paper studies the evaluation index system of sports town development level and proposes that the design of indicators should follow the principles of being feasible, operational, comparable and practical. Based on the empirical pre-selection of the indicator system, two rounds of expert surveys and indicator selection, and the determination of weighted indicators through AHP method, the present paper finally constructs the evaluation index system of sports town, which includes the four dimensions of sports town basic information, sports industry, sports resources and public sports services.

Key words: sports town, development level, evaluation, index system