March 2nd, 2018
After the passage of Irma and Maria, the Moorings said they were determined to rebuild and come back stronger than ever. They also committed to opening their BVI Base on December 9th. Well they weren’t kidding! Like clockwork they opened the Moorings/Sunsail BVI base for business on 12/9/17. The photo below shows the almost unbelievable progress made by their Tortola team in just 3 short months! The office, hotel and restaurant have been repaired and reopened, boats have been righted and repaired plus many new boats have been ordered and have arrived in time for the upcoming charter season. In January I was able to personally visit the Moorings BVI Base and am happy to report it looks every bit as good as in the photo below… perfectly put back together and ready for visitors now!
The Moorings: +1 284-393-2331 | +1 800-521-1198 | [email protected]
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