Bundaberg's famous turtle encounters are set to return without COVID restrictions.
The experience is helping drive Queensland's tourism industry, with tourists from Sydney and Melbourne flooding the booking site to snap up their tickets, while international travellers are also showing interest.
Bundaberg Tourism marketing manager Ellie Tonkin said they had to deploy 15 staff members to deal with booking enquiries.
"We've seen a really significant increase in people looking at the website to buy turtle tickets who are based in Sydney and Melbourne," she said.
She said the southerners were the second and third strongest markets for the season.
"We were really interested with the number of international guests that we were talking to," she said.
"We were chatting online with people from the UK, New Zealand and the United States who were looking to secure their tickets and come over for the summer season."
The first turtle encounters will begin at the start of November with tickets available for every night through to mid-March.
"We are really excited that we have a strong allocation of tickets this year," Ms Tonkin said.
She said numbers had not yet reached the levels they were at before the COVID pandemic.
"But there are a lot more tickets available," she said.
Benefit to local businesses
It comes as Bundaberg accommodation bookings start to fill ahead of summer.
More than 16,000 people visited the centre last year to witness 120,000 hatchlings depart for sea.
Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon encouraged people to get in quickly after 50 per cent of tickets sold out within 24 hours last year.
"Mon Repos supports the most significant nesting population of loggerhead turtles in the South Pacific," Ms Scanlon said.
"Those nesting turtles in turn support plenty of good jobs and business for the local community as visitors flock from across Queensland, Australia and overseas."
Last year alone, 364 turtles came ashore along the Woongarra Coast – 350 loggerheads, 9 flatbacks and five green turtles with the majority of them at Mon Repos.
