Chinese tour groups will be able to travel to Australia for the first time since borders closed, meaning hundreds of thousands of extra travellers Down Under.
Beijing re-added Australia to the approved list of outgoing group travel destinations on Thursday, just days after breakthroughs on barley tariffs.
Tourism Minister Don Farrell said it was welcome news for the industry, with the extra travellers expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in Australia.
"We welcome our inclusion and Chinese group tours ... back to Australia," he told the Senate on Thursday.
More than 250,000 Chinese holiday makers visited and spent $581 million in Australia as part of Beijing's approved destination status scheme in 2019.
The Australian government has also recently released its $125 million "Come and Say G'Day" tourism campaign in China, with ads starting at the end of June.
The ads have been viewed more than 66 million times.
