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With overseas and interstate travel out of the question, domestic tourism is booming in Western Australia according to Broadcaster Jane Marwick.

Ms Marwick said regional real estate “had never been busier.”

“People are desperate to get out of the city,” she said.

“People who live in apartments want, say, a quarter acre block, a house and land package.

“People who live in houses in the city want acreage.”

The rush to move from the city to the country meant regional towns in WA were doing “very, very nicely,” Ms Marwick said.

Ms Marwick said during the recent school holidays, the northern WA town Exmouth had undergone a population increase from 2,500 to 16,000 people, and Karratha, a town near Exmouth, “almost doubled its population.”