Identification and prioritization of available resources, is the first step in the development and management of tourism destinations sports. The purpose of study was prioritization of the sport tourism attractions in developing sport tourism in Iranian Northern provinces Therefore 112subjects (20sport management experts, 92 chairman, assistants and experts of universities, administrations of physical education, cultural heritage and municipalities of three provinces) were selected as the sample and answered to the questionnaire designed by the researcher. The face and content validities of the this questionnaire confirmed by experts and in a guide survey Cronbach's alpha coefficient for its reliability calculated, a =0/92.For analyzing data, Kruska Wallis, u- man- whitney, Touki and ANOVAs tests was used Collected in a significant level α ≤0/05. Findings showed that Attraction of the sport competitions and events, water sports, travelling in hills and nature tourism, mountain climbing and caving ,travelling in forest, warm water and nature therapy, beach sport, hunting, and winter sports, respectively have the most importance in developing sport tourism in studied provinces. According to research findings are suggested that authorities of the respective organizations have more attention to hold sport events for attracting more sport tourist and sport administrators in collaboration with other relevant departments do the more investment on sports attractions such as the beach sport and hiking.
