Abstract
The development of tourism that utilizes natural resource is drawing attention as a key
pillar of the tourism industry in Japan. Developing nature areas for outdoor sport tourism, especially
in the rural areas, can diffuse the concentration of tourists from the city to rural areas. However,
not only does Japan lag behind developed countries in terms of the sustainable use of natural
resources, but its perspective on the development of sustainable tourism that uses the sort of
outdoor sports tourism the government is expecting is still inadequate. Canada, being one of the
developed countries working on sustainable tourism development deploying leisure and recreation
in natural areas, possesses an integrated management system centered on a national administration
for sustainable tourism development. The purpose of this study was to collect the case of Canada＇s national park which developed the idea of sustainability and consider how to promote sustainable tourism utilizing sport in Japan. By collecting data from secondary sources and fieldwork in Jasper national park and Banff national park, some efforts that continuously utilize nature as sport tourism resources were discovered: zoning, interpretive program, tourist＇s conflict management. These efforts for the development of sustainable sport tourism in Canadian national park can be adapted to promote sustainable outdoor sport tourism in Japan.
