October 21st, 2018
YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THESE PHOTOS! In a recent article in the BVI Beacon they wrote, “Road Town was devastated by Hurricane Irma, but the capital is building back in leaps and bounds. Scroll down to compare scenes captured shortly after Hurricane Irma to the same scenes captured in recent weeks.”
Irma, Then and Now: Photos from around Road Town is a gallery of then-and-now photos chronicling the changes in the capital city on Tortola since Hurricane Irma. Amazing work by Freeman Rogers and the staff at The BVI Beacon.
If you’re thinking of vacationing in the Caribbean, this is why you should come (or come back) to the BVI. It’s not perfect – as you’ll see even in some of these “now” photos, but they’ve made incredible progress all over the island after last year’s devastating hurricane season. One thing that really stands out is the resilence of nature – stripped of all their leaves during Irma, the trees and bushes have rebounded nicely and the island is once again a beautiful tropical green.
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