Abstract: On the background of national supply-side structural reform, big health industry and forestry transformation and upgrading, opportunities coexisted with challenges in forest health and wellness tourism, which was a new force in forestry development and forest tourism. By analyzing a large number of domestic and foreign scholars' literatures and monographs, the development status and research progress were summarized for forest health and wellness tourism at home and abroad, and the future research direction was proposed. It was expected to provide certain reference significance for Chinese forest health and wellness tourism, both in theoretical research and in industrial practice development.