Australians and other travellers who don't need a visa will be the first tourists allowed back in with a promise they'll have bags on airport carousels no later than July, while other international travellers will need to wait until October.
But they will all have to self-isolate.
National Party's Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop told Morning Report the border reopening will do little to help ailing tourism businesses if the isolation requirements don't change.
"Tourism is basically not going to see much improvement until you get rid of those isolation requirements.
"So, I think the conversation is going to quickly turn into that and potentially what you'd see as a progressive scale down of the isolation maybe down to three days, and then maybe eliminating it altogether."
Chris Bishop expects the tourism sector to put pressure on the government to downgrade the isolation rules.
