May 13th, 2018
The following is from an article in the BVI News. They reported, “After more than seven months of being closed, the ferry terminal in Road Town is finally resuming regular operations. The ferry terminal officially reopened on Sunday, May 13. The Ports Authority is now promising faster processing from Customs and Immigration officers based at the jetty, which was extensively damaged during the September 2017 hurricanes.During the repairs, additional space was added to the international terminal at the Road Town-based dock.”
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