During the coming tourist season, people arriving in St. Thomas after sunset Friday through Sunday may be able to take a ferry to Tortola if the BVI Tourist Board succeeds …
October 23, 2019
September 30, 2019
Calls made for tourism master plan
Though Premier Andrew Fahie recently expressed high hopes for the tourism industry to have 5,000 land-based rooms available within five years, some hospitality stakeholders said last week that this target …
September 5, 2019
BVI Tourist Board gets more funding
During Standing Finance Committee deliberations, BVI Tourist Board Director Sharon Flax-Brutus requested a budget of $14.2 million, an increase from $10.5 million in previous years. The request was approved, she …
June 19, 2019
“Smart travel” ideas win tourism contest
Tourism in the Virgin Islands — home of wooden boats and beach shacks — would go ultra- high-tech if the new “junior minister of tourism” has anything to say about …
November 6, 2018
After months of questions, basic details given about one Irma fund
This article originally appeared in the Beacon’s print edition on Nov. 1. A few days after Hurricane Irma devastated the Virgin Islands last September, the BVI Tourist Board launched an …
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