With this cross-border pilot project, the project partners European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI), University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (FH OÖ), Federal Research Center for Forests (BFW) and Paracelsus Medical Private University (PMU) together with the project participants Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald & Forst (LWF), Office for Food, Agriculture & Forestry (AELF), Federal Ministry for Sustainability & Tourism (BMNT), Upper Austria Tourism (OÖT) and Tourism Association East Bavaria (TVO) as well as the five pilot regions of Bad Birnbach, Braunau-Simbach, Traunsee-Almtal, Tennengau and Neureichau/Bayer. Forest approaches the current theme “Forest Tourism Health” in order to work together to develop the foundations of sustainable health tourism use of local forests and the associated natural resources. Based on a detailed inventory and potential analysis of the pilot regions, serious cooperation and business models for the sustainable health tourism use of local forest and natural areas in the respective pilot regions are developed (e.g. forest-related prevention measures). Taking into account the analysis of current (training) offers and the training needs of so-called “forest therapists”, which represent an essential role as a mediator and link in such destinations, transferable, sustainable implementation strategies for health forests are developed in the form of a guideline. In addition to the concrete development of sustainable implementation strategies, the joint project implementation results in particular in the establishment of a long-term cross-border cooperation partnership at various levels (science, tourism, forestry, medicine) as well as the simultaneous development of a region-specific strength & research field “Forest, Tourism & Health”, which forms the basis for further thematic networking as well as for important follow-up projects.