With the remarkable development of China’s economy, the growing of tourism, ethnic sports gradually rise, more and more people into ethnic areas, explore ethnic customs, participate in ethnic sports. Based on the new economy, new infrastructure, new customer groups and new needs, to launch innovative and diversified development challenges for national sports tourism. By using the research methods of literature, logic analysis and mathematical statistics, this paper discusses the development obstacles and development paths of the integration of sports intangible cultural heritage and cultural tourism in Sichuan ethnic areas. The results show that the top-level design of sports intangible cultural heritage and sports tourism industry in minority areas is not mature; The development of national sports event tourism industry is unbalanced; The integration and development of sports intangible heritage and cultural tourism in minority areas are unbalanced. It is concluded that further integrated development requires scientific development planning; Digging the traditional national sports, creating a new model of integrated sports tourism; Improve the two-way national sports tourism development model at home and abroad. The formation of the integrated development model of “intangible cultural heritage + sports tourism” in Sichuan will help the sports tourism industry in Sichuan gradually mature and enhance the soft power of national sports and sports tourism.