January 23rd, 2019
Great news for all of the Willy-T fans out there. Just saw the following update from The Official William Thornton (Willy T) Fan Club’s Facebook page. In a recent post they reported, “Contrary to rumors on the street we are NOT leaving the BVI and you can still find us in Great Harbour, Peter Island for now. See you soon.”
Recently the BVI government had ordered them to relocate, but according to a December 27, 2018 article in the Virgin Islands News Online they stated, “now it looks like they [Willy-T] will remain in their current location for a while longer.”
The William Thornton: +1 284-340-8603
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