Abstract:

As an important part of China's forest resources,economic forests are of great significance to the development and construction of the national economy,the protection of ecological balance and the development of the forest industry.This article aims to explore the transformation and upgrading of the economic forest industry structure by exploring the integration and development of the economic forest and the research travel industry,and to solve a series of supply-demand reversal problems in the current economic forest development process.The study takes Zhengzhou,capital of Central China's Henan Province,as an example in a bid to discuss its existing economic forest resources and development status.The PESTEL model is used to analyze the feasibility of integrated development.As a result,it is proposed that Zhengzhou's industrial integration design and development models can be divided into three categories:(1)According to the land management model,they are divided into:“company leasing+subcontracting”,“company+industry alliance”;(2)according to commercial investment entities:“school+tourism enterprise+government”,“school+professional research institute+government”;(3)According to the form of activity organization,it is divided into:“theme cognitive education”,“cultural experience activities”,“application practice exploration” and “ knowledge research learning”.

Key words: economic forest, research travel, natural science popularization, PESTEL model, feasibility, development model