October 29th, 2019
According to a recent article in the BVI News, the BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA) is soliciting bids for the paving of the airport on Virgin Gorda. Currently the runway is a sand and gravel airstrip. Paving the runway would expand the allowable aircraft who could use the airport to turboprops and possibly small jets.
“The runway at the airport remains an unpaved, sand and gravel airstrip measuring 3,100 feet. The award shall be made to a responsible respondent(s) taking into consideration the requirements and conditions set forth in the request for proposals and, if necessary, obtaining best and final offers,” the notice issued by the BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA) said.
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