I noticed on Facebook that many lovers of the BVI continue to be interested in seeing what the beaches and the islands in general look like after the hurricanes. As a result, I have updated the photo gallery...
WB Surf Camp, headquartered in Wrightsville Beach, NC in conjunction with Surf School BVI on Josiah's Bay in Tortola has announced that they will be bringing back their Learn-to-Surf camp to Tortola from...
Philippe Leroy, Managing Director, at Last Stop Sports provided the following update. “We were lucky with Irma and only had to do some cleanup. Thus, our shop in Road Town was able to re-open only a...
Anegada was fortunate, in that it escaped the full force of Irma and Maria. As a result, most of the hotels and beach bars have made the necessary repairs and are now open for business. This season is...
Read MoreMelisande Rowe at Sail Caribbean Divers provided the following update. She said, "We are open for business! As promised, we have a full complement of rental equipment and scuba retail accessories. Recently...
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...
Steve Howes, partner and instructor at Surf School BVI gave me the following update. "Irma tossed our storage container several hundred yards inland, but miraculously most of the boards inside survived...
I just got a call from Elaine, the owner of BVI Snuba. She wants everyone to know that they will be up and operational in December from their base in Leverick Bay. Elaine said, "If you've wanted to try...
Read MoreKay and the Sunchaser Scuba Team located at Bitter End Yacht Club in Virgin Gorda reports that they are working hard on getting their dive shop back up and running. "New equipment and stock is ordered,...
Dive BVI on Virgin Gorda is officially back out on and under the water! Recently they welcomed their first guests since hurricanes Irma and Maria. For those of you who are concerned about the condition...
Just got the following report from Blue Water Divers. They said, "Blue Water Divers at Nanny Cay is open. We are not yet diving but our shop is open and we are having a 25 - 50% sale on our clothes. Our...
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