July 30th, 2019
BVI Traveller was in Brewer’s Bay recently making a stop at Nicole’s Brewer’s Bay Beach Bar. A BVI fixture for many years, Nicole’s building miraculously survived Irma and the damage has been repaired. The place looks basically the same as it did before the hurricanes and still offers an amazing view of Brewer’s Bay.
Unfortunately Nicole’s is not yet serving food like it did before Irma, just drinks and a few prepackaged snacks.
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