20am on Monday , a flight from Los Angeles touched down in Sydney, allowing a planeload of passengers to disembark and - to their surprise - be greeted by crews of local media keen to record the historic event.that have left the country cut off from the world for almost two years.
"I can't tell you how much it means to hug my daughter after all this time," Ms Moss told The Sydney Morning Herald. Universities expressed delight at the border reopening, which has allowed all foreign students to arrive just in time for the start of the new academic year. "It was surreal to see all those people, all those restaurants, all those different architectural buildings," he was quoted as saying in The Age newspaper.
But some analysts have warned against anticipating a flood of foreign tourists in the near term, saying that they may be put off by Australia's history of sudden border closures and the mix of confusing rules that can vary in each state.Another major hurdle for the tourism and education sectors is that their biggest source of revenue - Chinese visitors - are still unlikely to travel in large numbers due to China's border closures. In 2019, Australia received 1.