January 18th, 2018
The hotel industry in the BVI has made a good start towards recovery, but still has a long way to go. A number of hotels and villas suffered less damage than others and have made the necessary repairs in order to reopen for the current tourist season. Rooms are still scarce, however, as many of the larger resorts such as The Bitter End, Cooper Island, Little Dix Bay, Peter Island and Scrub Island remain closed until mid to late 2018 thus causing a shortage of rooms on the island. Fortunately, many of the smaller properties have fared better and are now open for business. Our list now includes over 45 hotels, villas and B&Bs including Fort Burt, Fort Recovery, Leverick Bay, Maria’s By The Sea, Nanny Cay, Sugar Mill, Village Cay and More!
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