November 13th, 2017
t looks like the restaurants in the BVI have taken the lead in the rebuilding and recovery effort as many of them have already reopened in the first 8 weeks since Irma. Some started with just generators as power was unavailable and others began by offering limited menus and hours. Our list now includes over 75 restaurants and bars including such iconic places as Foxy’s, Myett’s, Pusser’s, Leverick Bay 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