October 27th, 2017
Melody Delgado, owner of Virgin Island Sailing offered the following update. Melody said, “We offer crewed yachts and bareboats through numerous companies in the US and British Virgin Islands. We are dedicated to helping the island’s recovery by providing a way to bring tourism back. Many of our clients have been regular visitors for years and consider the BVI a second home. We are working hard to provide as many charters as possible for the upcoming season so folks can come back and visit asap!”
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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