"We are open for business" is the message at Illawarra Fly Treetop Walk and Symbio Wildlife Park.

Both report visitation as slightly down.

The numbers are relatively normal for this time of year, according to Illawarra Fly attraction manager Andrew Zentrich.

Mr Zentrich said the long weekend in the ACT brought many visitors from Canberra and that boosted numbers after a difficult summer. And suggested now was a good time for Illawarra residents to visit and spend locally.

"Our beautiful backyard has so much to explore and we are open for business."

When news of the coronavirus first broke Illawarra Fly immediately took steps to introduce health and safety precautions.

"We have a lot of hand sanitiser and signs up around the attraction encouraging guests to wash their hands and be very hygienic. We are a safe place to come. We have a lot of preventative measures in place ".

Visitor numbers at Symbio are only being minimally affected by the coronavirus. The attraction is still getting good numbers from Sydney but international visitation always drops off after summer, according to marketing manager Kevin Fallon.

The wildlife park also has taken steps to make each visit safer.

Staff are proactive about hygiene, safe contact with guests and the physical handling of money.

Mr Fallon said the compound affect of the fires followed by coronavirus had resulted in poorer numbers overall to start the year.

"Unfortunately a couple of the critical days during the holidays when we would typically get our highest visitor numbers were the catastrophic fire days," he said.

Looking ahead Mr Fallon doesn't foresee a major drop off in international visitors to the wildlife park. He said most book their travel well in advance and are reluctant to cancel.

"For a lot of people it is their once in a lifetime opportunity," he said.

Mr Fallon said Symbio enjoyed a great response to social media marketing globally and will keep using it to keep the attraction and the region top of mind.

"In the last two months we have reached 70 million people on social and had 6.8 million in engagement," he said.

At the treetop walk Mr Zentrich expects numbers to pick up again over Easter and the school holidays.

"We are still seeing pretty stable numbers from Sydney and interstate. The fires definitely affected us more than the coronavirus," he said.

"I would say to people if they don't want to travel to affected areas and are looking for something different to do domestically why not put money back into local tourism and into the areas that were affected by the fires.

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