VI Promotion

It was in the paper that Tourism was going to do a push, because the warm start of winter in the States had kept people home instead of traveling to escape the cold. Supposedly numbers are down.

Hmmm, according to STT Source
"Meanwhile, according to Bowry, tax collections for the current year are down by 14 percent as compared to the same period last year. ........ But air visitor arrivals and hotel stays are up, helping to bolster a 6 percent increase in hotel room tax revenue."

Since no time frames were given in either article, hard to determine accuracy. It would help if they would give the sources for the info.

If the VI wants to have a viable tourism product, they need to clean up the damn overwhelming trash on our roadsides, fix our spine jarring, teeth rattling, pot hole ridden, brush overgrown, ill lit, unlined roads, make the VI a safe, clean, affordable destination for tourist and residents, alike. Downtown STT once had a vibrant and active nightlife. One could park, right in town and walk to many night time bars and restaurants. Our beaches, corals and sea life need to have clean water, instead of the never-ending beach advisories warning people about going into the water at our popular beaches.

We would have money for these things if our money, both federal and local, was not constantly being misspent, misused, mismanaged, misappropriated, wasted and stolen.

The only checks and balances that occurs is when the OIG does an audit and we gasp at the results. Then no one is accountable and the money disappears forever into the black holes of grasping, deep pockets never to be recovered nor accounted for.

In today's paper, Caribbean tourism up 7%, but VI "exceeded the global growth rate in annual visitors, but fell short compared with Caribbean competitors Cuba, Aruba, and Barbados.

They offer a better, safer, cleaner product than we do.
No surprise, there!

They offer a better, safer, cleaner product than we do.
No surprise, there!

so true

If the VI wants to have a viable tourism product, they need to clean up the damn overwhelming trash on our roadsides, fix our spine jarring, teeth rattling, pot hole ridden, brush overgrown, ill lit, unlined roads, make the VI a safe, clean, affordable destination for tourist and residents, alike.

I will say, I had just about memorized all the ruts and pot holes between 5 points and Sion Farm. Well, they completely resurfaced the one stretch of road (which really needed it) last month as well as patching several pot holes along the way. I was amazed.