September 2nd, 2018
TMM Yacht Charters has made an amazing comeback in the 10 months since hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the islands. As with all charter companies, TMM took a big hit from Irma with a large portion of their fleet either damaged or destroyed. Fast forward to July 2018 and things are looking much, much better at TMM. Barney and Lin Crook, owners of TMM Charters, reported that they had 36 boats pre-Irma, but as of July 2018 they are already back to 60% of their pre-Irma capacity with 21 boats in their fleet. “By year end we will be back to 100% of our pre-Irma capacity with 34 Catamarans and 2 Mono Hulls in the water”, they added. For the upcoming season, Barney and Lin are already looking ahead to a robust year for BVI charters saying that, “We have another 7 new cats on order for 2019.” Congratulations for a job well done and a great boost for tourism in the BVI!
TMM Yacht Charters: +1 800-633-0155 | [email protected]
BVI Traveller was created in September of 2017 to help tourism in the British Virgin Islands recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma.
To that end, we met our goals. In the past 7 years there have been over 1.2 million visits to the website and over 3 million pages have been viewed. There are over 1,000 pages on the site featuring news posts and detailed listings on all hotels, villas, restaurants and sailing charters located in the BVI. The BVI Government and many business, hotels, villas and sailing charters have all agreed that the site “moved the needle on tourism” after Irma.
The site, however, has run its course. It has served its purpose by bringing visitors and local businesses together to rebuild the tourist industry and it is now time to shut down operations for good.
I want to thank everyone for your help and support.
Chuck Metter