BVITB meeting over 300 high profile travel advisors to promote BVI
A contingent from the BVI Tourist Board (BVITB) is hosting more than 300 meetings with what they’ve described as “high net worth travel advisors” from the United States, Latin America, and Europe.
The meetings are being held this week — from August 8 to 13 — to increase awareness of ‘Destination BVI’.
Specifically, the BVITB team — led by Deputy Tourism Director Rhodni Skelton — is participating in one-on-one virtual meetings with these top travel advisors during the highly-anticipated Virtuoso Travel Week.
“We fully embrace the experience of networking with these high-value travel advisors to promote the safe and beautiful destination BVI,” Skelton stated.
“Team BVI joins some 1,800 other participants at this ultimate annual global travel community event. Attendance at Virtuoso Travel Week continues to be a critical part of the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board’s overall marketing strategy to strengthen and deepen the destination’s relationship with partners in the international travel trade,” the BVI’s Deputy Tourism Director added.
He continued: “It is an exhausting endeavour for the team, having to host hundreds of virtual meetings in a short space of time, but one that will reap many rewards for Destination BVI,”.
According to a media release from the Tourist Board, the team aims to further enhance the image of the BVI as a boutique luxury multi-vacation destination where guests can have multiple vacation experiences in one destination.
This initiative has come at a time when Premier Andrew Fahie is set to face renewed questions about what is his government’s tourism strategy amid the ongoing pandemic that has virtually crippled local tourism.
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no point if they cannot get here, increase airlift and get back to pre covid ferry schedule
Guests have been cancelling travel plans for the remainder of the year. With the Covid outbreak and lack of vaccinations and proper protocol they aren’t coming. Have all the meetings you want. As always p**s poor planning by the government of the BVI. They certainly don’t care. Only care about themselves and not the people.
High Net Worth clients will not be arriving on ferries or Cape Air. They have their own transportation. The problem is the BVI resistance to vaccination.
Where are they having the meetings ? Prospect Reef ?
You got to be a iiiidiottttt! You can’t read that it is virtual? Oh I forgot you don’t know what virtual mean.
Showing your own stupidity. Meant to be a light hearted dig on the Prospect Reef disaster but you can’t remember the mess there. Sorry it was over your head.
Plus that Gateway portal SUCKS!! That needs to be fixed before stressing out travelers!
What a joke!
Waste of time and money. If you want to get people here, get the majority of people here vaccinated, and mandate anyone working with tourists to be vaccinated. Require visitors to be vaccinated. Two: make it easier to get here. Coodinate ferry services with airline schedules in StT. Deal with the paperwork aboard ferry while it’s on its way. Make an effort to treat people politely in the process. Three: don’t look at tourists like bottomless pits of money. Treat them fairly. They know there are other places they could go to. Lastly, do away with all the petty taxation upon arrival and departure. Charge a single entry fee to include entry into National Parks, security fees, etc. And, most importantly, ask yourselves what kinds of tourists you’re looking for, and aim for that market. IMHO: seems like sailboat charterers and villa renters are likely better than one-day cruise ship visitors who don’t need to spend much. But go ahead with your meeting. Hopefully someone has the good sense to track the returns it brings.
Well said
Reading your BVI news and comments from US, I was planning a trip for Nov’21 but it sounds like a train wreck with ferry schedules to meet plane schedules, multiple fee’s and taxes, Covid testing before arriving, on arrival and 3 days before departing…what a mess…not worth it. Sad!
Reading your BVI news and comments from US, I was planning a trip for Nov’21 but it sounds like a train wreck with ferry schedules to meet plane schedules, multiple fee’s and taxes, Covid testing before arriving, on arrival and 3 days before departing…what a mess…not worth it. Sad!