September 13th, 2018
YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THESE PHOTOS! In a recent article in the BVI Beacon they wrote, “Much has changed since Hurricane Irma struck the Virgin Islands on Sept. 6, 2017. In some locations, the recovery effort has transformed the landscape. Other areas, however, don’t look much different. Scroll down to compare scenes captured shortly after Hurricane Irma to the same scenes captured in recent days.”
Irma, Then and Now: Photos from Around Tortola is a gallery of then-and-now photos chronicling the changes on Tortola since Hurricane Irma. Road Town will be featured in a future post. Amazing work by Freeman Rogers and the staff at The BVI Beacon.
If you’re thinking of vacationing in the Caribbean, this is why you should come (or come back) to the BVI. It’s not perfect – as you’ll see even in some of these “now” photos, but they’ve made incredible progress all over the island after last year’s devastating hurricane season.
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