What is forest tourism?

According to the different characteristics and types of resources on which the development of forest tourism depends, forest tourism products are mainly divided into forest sightseeing, forest health preservation, forest exploration, forest culture and forest vacation, which are gradually advanced and deepened with the continuous advancement of the project and the changes of tourists' demand characteristics.

Forest tourism refers to any form of tourism activities in forest areas or woodlands, including sightseeing, hiking, mountaineering, cross-country, fishing and hunting, camping, exploration, popular science, recuperation and vacation. The core selling point of forest tourism is forest ecological environment, and its essence is tourists' enjoyment and experience of forest ecological environment, so forest tourism has strong naturalness, appreciation and participation.

In addition to the socio-economic driving effect of conventional tourism, forest tourism is also conducive to protecting the local forest ecology and natural resources landscape, conserving water resources, cultivating awareness of resource protection and promoting local social stability. Specifically, there are three kinds of resources that can be developed into forest tourism products: first, natural landscape resources, such as landforms and mountains, canyons and waterfalls, astronomical phenomena, animals and plants, etc. Second, human landscape resources, such as cultural relics, temples, folk culture and so on. Three, ecological environment resources, such as environment, negative ions, plant essence, etc.