January 12th, 2020
In a recent NY Times article that listed 52 places to visit in the world during 2020 the BVI came it at #2. In its headline, the article described the BVI as “An island chain devastated by hurricanes rebounds with an environmental bent.”
The article goes on to discuss the return of Little Dix Bay, Norman Island’s planned development, Necker Island, a new marina slated for Bitter End Yacht Club , the old Willy T becoming an artificial reef, Cooper Island and new electric boats from Voyage Charters.
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