Here come the rich people
An annual report put together by the V.I. Bureau of Economic Research says the number of visitors to the U.S. Virgin Islands was just short of 2.6 million in 2006, which was down, but just slightly from 2005. St. Croix just isn’t getting many of them. The same report says 2.4 million of those visitors went to St. Thomas or St. John. (It doesn’t break out St. John-only numbers.) How do most people get to the islands? Cruise ships…1.9 million of them visited as part of a cruise. Tourism officials expect things to be even busier in 2007, at least for St. Thomas and, as a spillover, St. John. They’re especially banking on more well-heeled travelers visiting, in part because of The new Yacht Haven, the re-opened Ritz and new luxo-villas at Frenchman’s Reef. You can read the economic report and outlook here. It’s kind of interesting.
March 19th, 2007 21:59
Thank you for the information. It is not the rich people! The report says that it is the improvement in management and efficiency of the local government that does it. Along with a slight increase in a number of government employees. If it is so, the limitless prosperity is all but assured.