Introduction: Tourism is a major industry in the world and as one of the largest and most diverse industries in the world is considered. Many countries, know this dynamic industry as the main source of income, employment, private sector growth and development of their infrastructure. One of the important sectors in the tourism industry has the ability to transform into something multi-sectorial, sport as sport tourism, has started. Statistics show that many countries with favorable conditions for sports tourism, a large part of its economy through income from their sport tourism office. Sport tourism is a key of hosting mega-events such as the Olympics and World Cup.
Methodology: This research is a descriptive- analytic one which is applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of this research includes Experts of Cultural Heritage, Youth and Sport Office experts and sports tourists in Hamadan province. For this purpose, 240 questionnaires were distributed among the sample, of which about 218 questionnaires were evaluated. The data was collected through Mehrabi and colleagues's questionnaire that including 42 questions. In inferential statistics section, Friedman test was used to investigate hypotheses and prioritizing variables.
Results: Prioritizing results of Freidman Test indicated that tourism infrastructure barriers with a mean rating of 5.11 the most effective barrier is the lack of development of sport tourism in the province. Then government barriers (4.37), political barriers (4.57), economic barriers (4.39), human barriers (3.89) and administrative barriers (2.83) are located. Finally, the cultural barriers with a mean rating of 2.73 take into last place.
Discussion: Findings of this research accords with the findings of Mehrabi and colleagues's(2012), and Karami and colleagues's (2016). The results showed that the weak infrastructural facilities and infrastructure is the main barriers in the development of sport tourism in the province. Non-standard roads and communications, poor transportation systems, non-standard and lack of service centers, including barriers to the development of sports tourism in the province's infrastructure. Including government agencies that can help to develop sports tourism can be cited lack of clear objectives and policies sport tourism.