Dubbo Regional Council Marketing and Economic Development Manager Josie Howard said visitors would be coming from near and far this weekend.

"The visitors information is certainly getting a lot of inquiries and we can see through our own accommodation tracking that we are going to be hitting a peak through the weekend and people have been forward planning their holidays and their trip to Dubbo," she said.

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The game at Apex Oval will have a capacity of 11,300 and Ms Howard knows how well received the match has been already without a ball being kicked.

"It's been great, the game has sold out three times so it's going to be really well patronised," she said.

"In terms of what it means for events, it's amazing, it's awesome."

Country Apartments owner Terry Clark admitted his business is fully booked out this weekend.

"We're full up right through at the moment, the whole industry is enjoying a very lucrative time," he said

"We did notice that we have had a lot of forward bookings for this weekend and we've had no concerns about filling up at all."

Mr Clark also stated he is not surprised at the number of bookings for this weekend.

"We've got a mixture of our normal type of booking and then we've got bookings related to the football," he said.

"Everything is just as we thought it would've been."

Mr Clark knows the most of his business come from places such as Sydney and this weekend people are opting to swap a well known attraction for the NRL match.

"Our source of business, it basically comes from the Sydney metropolitan area but we also do a lot of country support for people coming into Dubbo for the weekend then going back to the bush," he said.

"We wouldn't say our business is a lot different, instead of coming for the zoo they (tourists) are coming for the football."

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