The South West economy will reopen in a limited capacity after Premier Mark McGowan announced a sweep of changes to lift WA's coronavirus restrictions.
From May 18, regional travel restrictions will be eased from 13 borders to four and WA residents can dine-in at cafes, restaurants and pubs as the number of people allowed at indoor and outdoor gatherings rises to 20.
As soon as the announcement was made on Sunday, the phones at Mandalay Holiday Resort and Tourist Park in Busselton have not stopped ringing.
Park owner Aimee Wilson said people were booking accommodation to come to Busselton from next week until the school holidays, with the June long weekend proving popular.
"People will be coming midweek and weekends, I think everybody is ready to be away from their homes for a little while and are looking forward to a change of scenery," she said.
"As long as people use their commonsense and abide by those social distancing practices, they should still be able to enjoy a weekend away.
"It is a positive thing for us to be able to have people coming back through the door."
The holiday park had to make some health and safety changes to align with the government's directive and some facilities at the park will remain closed.
"We can open our campers kitchen, pools and share ablutions again, we have increased our hygiene practices and have a hygiene officer that will oversee all of that.
"Provided people are still happy to come and have limited things available we are excited to be trading again."
After a short hiatus during the pandemic the owners of Bistro Breton in Busselton are looking forward to welcoming customers back through their door.
Owner Thibaut Lidou said they would reopen on Tuesday but would have to make quite a few changes to how they operated.
"We are excited to reopen we cannot wait, we had lots of customers asking for us to be back, it just feels good that people are waiting for us," he said.
While the bistro won't be able to operate at their full capacity for the time being, the business is working out how many customers they could seat inside at the same time when they reopen.
"We do know it will not be enough so we will try to push takeaway which we haven't done before," Mr Lidou said.
"It is scary at the same time because we do not know if that will be enough to run the business, but we do have to start again we do not have a choice and we really want too as well.
"We just do not know what is coming, it looks like we will have a good winter holiday with lots of people coming down from Perth, which would be great.
"We missed out on Easter and we missed our on Mothers Day, last year that was the biggest day we had ever done."
City of Busselton mayor Grant Henley said lifting some restrictions and reopening regional boundaries was an important first step for the local economy.
Mr Henley said local businesses would need to be innovative in how they provided their service within government guidelines to maintain their viability.
"There will be some different ways of doing business and maybe that will be booking in dinner for an hour rather than an evening.
"These are all things businesses will need to work out and we need to workout ourselves how we manage things like reopening the pools and how we manage the membership through that."
The City of Busselton's COVID executive group will meet on May 12 to work through how they will operate their facilities when restrictions ease.
"It will be difficult, we can only have 20 people in each water body so we are figuring out whether we can have 40 in there, it might be that people will need to book in for an hour session.
"Libraries similarly, people like to go into the library and wile away a few hours reading and browsing, it will be one in one out type scenario so people won't be able to sit around in there."
The city are also investigating whether they could hold small boutique events on the June long weekend and July school holiday.s
Mr Henley said he would love to see smaller venues encourage musicians and buskers to play live performances at their premises.
Vasse MLA Libby Mettam said the start of lifting restrictions was welcome news for the small businesses who have taken a significant hit during this period.
"If we maintain good hygiene and social distancing we will continue to see the easing of restrictions which will be good for us all," she said.
