The US Virgin Islands Is More Popular Than Ever, Buoyed By New St Thomas and St Croix Flights
Travelers are making a beeline for one particular destination in the Caribbean right now: the US Virgin Islands, which continues to shine in the post-pandemic period with blazing tourist arrival numbers, Caribbean Journal has learned.
The US Virgin Islands is projecting a 24 percent increase in airlift arrivals this year compared to 2023, officials revealed this week.
That’s a conservative estimate, though: actual arrivals in the first quarter of 2024 were actually up 26.5 percent over the same period last year.
While the USVI has a very strong home sharing economy sector, hotel occupancy has also been strong, with a 12.4 percent jump so far this year, and hotel tax revenues up by 24 percent.
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