With the development of the healing economy, forest wellness tourism has emerged as a new form of healthy and high-value-added tourism, and its therapeutic attributes have become key to enhancing tourists’ health benefits. This study investigated the relationship between the therapeutic features of forest wellness tourism, restorative experiences and tourists’ health benefits. The data was obtained through the field survey of 639 forest wellness tourists in the form of questionnaires, and the research hypothesis is empirically tested using mathematical statistical analysis and a structural equation model. The results indicated that the therapeutic attributes of forest wellness tourism significantly improved tourists’ health benefits, with the natural environment, infrastructure, humane atmosphere and symbolic perception all having a positive impact. Moreover, restorative experiences play a positive mediating role between the therapeutic attributes of forest wellness tourism and tourists’ health benefits. This study enriches and expands the theoretical research system related to the therapeutic attributes of forest wellness tourism and restorative experiences, reveals how forest wellness tourism influences tourists’ health benefits, and provides a practical basis for the integrated development of the health and tourism industry.
Huang et al. (Thu,) studied this question.