The Queensland border will reopen to regional New South Wales next week; however, Greater Sydney will remain locked out.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced that, following the health advice, the border will remain shut to 32 local government areas in Greater Sydney as well as all of Victoria.

Despite this, it is welcoming news to tourism operators in Douglas with millions of regional New South Welshman now able to visit the sunshine state without quarantining, benefiting our struggling tourism industry.

Any New South Wales residents, who have not been in Greater Sydney in the last 14 days, will be allowed to enter Queensland from 1:00 am on 3 November.

Regional New South Wales residents will be permitted to fly into Queensland through the Sydney Airport but will need to travel through Sydney without stopping.

On the eve of the state election, Ms Palaszczuk said she was continuing the follow the advice of the Chief Health Officer.

Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the recent cases in NSW led to her decision to close Queensland to Sydneysiders.

"I have reviewed the situation in NSW and prior to yesterday they had four LGAs in Sydney that had had cases of community transmission that NSW was unable to link to any known clusters, which means that they have transmission and they don't know where it is coming from," she said.

"Yesterday they had four new cases and one of those cases they could not link to any other known clusters.

"The other three cases were linked to that case. That then meant another area of Sydney was having cases.

"NSW put out an alert for six different sites across the city where they were concerned that transmission could have occurred.

"So, based on that new information yesterday and the information up to that point I believe it is important that Queensland remain closed to those 32 LGA is in Sydney."

The 32 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in NSW that are classified as a hotspot are:
Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Camden, Campbelltown, Canada Bay, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Hornsby, Hunters Hill, Inner West, Ku-Ring-Gai, Lane Cove, Liverpool, Mosman, North Sydney, Northern Beaches, Parramatta, Penrith, Randwick, Ryde, Strathfield, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, The Hills Shire, Waverley, Willoughby, Wollondilly, Woollahra and Sydney Harbour.

The Queensland roadmap to easing restrictions originally slated the reopening for 1 November, however, the Premier said the border opening on November 3 would allow time for border passes to be renewed.