December 18th, 2017
Grant Headifen, Director of NauticEd, a global online sailing education, certification, and charter broker company made a ceremonial presentation of a check to the British Virgin Islands at the 2017 Annapolis boat show. After Irma and Maria devastated the BVI, NauticEd reached out to their students worldwide for donations and was able to raise close to $70,000 for the islands recovery effort. The money went to Richard Branson’s Virgin Unite BVI Fund. Headifen is no stranger to the British Virgin Islands having written the BVI Chart Briefing course which is a comprehensive course on the BVI’s used by all the BVI yacht charter companies.
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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