October 26th, 2017
Ulla from Amazing Charters contacted me with a very good point about the upcoming sailing season. She said, “While many hotels and villas has been decimated and a huge part of the bareboat fleet is gone, there are still about 80% of the crewed yachts in business.” She goes on to say that “there is a permanent fleet of about 300 crewed yachts and about 70% of them are perfectly fine after being stored on shore or running away from the hurricanes. These yachts are not only for rock-stars and royalty, but for anyone who wants to sail the beautiful BVI. Rates start about $2100/week per person all inclusive!” Amazing Charters is open for business now!
Amazing Charters: +1 704-257-4766 | [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