October 12th, 2018
Photo Credit: Clifton Skelton/BVI Platinum News
A recent article published in the BVI Platinum News revealed that the Hon. Mark Vanterpool, Minister of Communications and Works announced this week that the temporary West End Port Facility and Ferry Terminal will be up and ready to receive traffic from neighboring islands before Christmas.
According to the artice, Ho. Mark Vanterpool said, “We are looking at opening that port sometime in November. We are doing some things right now to prepare for that with temporary buildings we are putting down there. We are hoping to have the passenger traffic in that area by mid-November. The Minister added, “So we are working towards that, and we want to see it opened a little while before Christmas so that we can have traffic from St. Thomas coming up back.”
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