March 10th, 2019
To better serve our users, BVI Traveller has announced the addition of a Villa Search Feature to its website. The new feature allows users to search by island, location (beachfront, oceanview, hillside, etc.), number of bedrooms and amenities (pool or air conditioning).
With over 450,000 visits and 1,000,000 page views annually at BVI Traveller, this is going to be a game changer for villa rentals in the BVI. The search feature will give users access to over 104 villas that are currently open for vacation rentals in the BVI including Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke. We hope you’ll like it.
As a reminder, at BVI Traveller we put you in direct contact with the villa owners or their agents, so you’ll never pay a booking fee.
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