February 4th, 2018
WB Surf Camp, headquartered in Wrightsville Beach, NC in conjunction with Surf School BVI on Josiah’s Bay in Tortola has announced that they will be bringing back their Learn-to-Surf camp to Tortola from February 25th – March 3rd for a record 14th year! According to Rick Civelli, owner of WB Surf Camp “When the hurricanes Irma and Maria hit, we considered moving our camp to another destination, but after seeing the amazing progress being made towards recovery we realized that the best thing we could do was to return and contribute to the tourist economy here in the BVI”. Look for Rick and a great bunch of stoked surfers enjoying the waves on Josiah’s Bay this season. For more info or to join click here.
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