The Physiological and Psychological Effects Benefits of Forest Therapy (FT) on Tourists in the Kranjska Gora Destination

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The specific experimental research explores the phyciological and psychological effects of forest on a tourist destination of Slovenia.Here are few suggestions:

In page 2 lines 62-63 there is bad expresion to the aim of the paper.

The Introduction can be improved by exploring some of the recent publications about the same topic in forests Journal. Adding related studies will enhance the quality of the study. 

In the unit 2.1 81-88 linesthe authors give th size of the sample 50 volunteers that took place to the research. The authors for more safe conclusions the research could be repeated taking bigger sample.

Also the results are not given very clearly to some points having too much infomation in one sentence.

Extensive  editing of english language required.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The article is very interesting. The authors thoroughly and very honestly described the experiment carried out. Admittedly, some doubts may be raised by the small research sample, but against the background of other similar studies this is not a big defect. The article is very comprehensive, nevertheless, I have some dissatisfaction because we do not know how the exposure to the forest was carried out. Please give a brief description of this process. Were the participants in the experiment in movement, or did they sit and contemplate the forest? What did it look like exactly?My two main subsequent comments are on the discussion and the summary. I see too few references to the work of other researchers in the discussion. Please see the experiments using PANAS from Poland. In my opinion, one laconic sentence that this test has some limitations is not enough. I expect more extensive justification and reference to the opinions of other researchers. I would also like the authors to elaborate on the influence of physical activity in the forest on the results achieved in the discussion. Besides, what I miss here is a clear indication of what the limitations were and what the future directions of research in this area are. The conclusions are too broad and unnecessarily repetitive of the results. Please elaborate on the thread mentioned in lines 636-638. What specific activities do the authors have in mind?

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors made all the appropriate changes to the mnuscript, so the paper can be accepted for publication to Sustainability journal.