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Tourist Board launching Tourism Historical Tour Manual today, Nov 7

- Historical Tour Manual & Virtual Historical Tour to aid in telling the Virgin Islands Story 'accurately'
The Tourism Historical Tour Manual is a tool designed to allow transportation professionals to speak accurately about the Virgin Islands because its content is historically authentic. Photo: Facebook
Local historian and the former head of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College’s Virgin Island Studies Programme, Dr Angel Smith of VI Heritage, was commissioned to research and compile the historical data contained in the Tourism Historical Tour Manual. Photo: VINO/File
Local historian and the former head of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College’s Virgin Island Studies Programme, Dr Angel Smith of VI Heritage, was commissioned to research and compile the historical data contained in the Tourism Historical Tour Manual. Photo: VINO/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board & Film Commission (BVITBFC) is inviting the public to the launch of its official Tourism Historical Tour Manual and Virtual Historical Tour today, Thursday, November 7, 2024.

The launch will take place at the Maria’s By The Sea Conference Room, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.

BVITBFC commissioned local historian and the former head of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College’s Virgin Island Studies Programme, Dr Angel Smith of VI Heritage, to research and compile the historical data contained in the manual.

Dr Smith will also conduct training sessions for the transportation sector on storytelling and the use of the manual as they increase their historical knowledge.

Time travel!

The sessions are designed to transport tour operators to a time in Virgin Islands history. While they will be working from the same “script”, the training will inspire transportation professionals to be creative and add their personal “pizzazz” to tours, while ensuring guests participate in an authentic Virgin Islands experience.

The virtual tour, according to a press release from BVITBFC, is a short narration of the historical tour manual information and will be used in the monthly training for transportation professionals to enhance their knowledge and storytelling skills.

“This is an incredible milestone as the destination continues to focus on improving our guest experience. This is the first of a series of Tourism Historical Tour Manuals for the destination. This manual is a tool designed to allow transportation professionals to speak accurately about the Virgin Islands because its content is historically authentic.

"We are inviting everyone to this event as it is important for residents to have a knowledge of the Territory’s history and culture, to proudly and confidently share it with our guests,” said Mrs Vionie Pickering, Product Director of BVITBFC.

7 Responses to “Tourist Board launching Tourism Historical Tour Manual today, Nov 7”

  • .. (07/11/2024, 10:32) Like (1) Dislike (3) Reply
    next they going give out coloring books to the kids on each curse.....virgin art class 101 welcome to the islands edition
  • Native Senior Citizen of the British Virgin Islands (07/11/2024, 10:50) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    All things not been, not are, nor never will be equal, this is a good plan, the traffic roads are badly ragged from years ago, and the Hodge's Creek area has been dugged up for repair due to sea tourist planned expansion at a time when rain is pouring, and at the beginning point of our tourist season. What a time as now to try to get our minds off our rundowns infrastructure. and poorly prioritized leaders choices.

    Approximately only about 2% of the people that living in the 7th district are living in the area living in the Hodge's Creek area, but the other 98% are being forced to tolerate ragged roads that make walking in the public traffic roads difficult, because of the many potholes.

    If our present Governor and the leaders of the VIP government were forced to drive on the ragged and potholes traffic roads often daily to make ends meet, they all will give the comment a like, and the same will honest people do.
  • Roger Burnett (07/11/2024, 10:51) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
    My book "Virgin Island Sketches" is relevant. I gathered the material in the 1970's and the book was a bestseller throughout the 1980's.

    The book is now in its 4th casebound edition. Unfortunately, copies are not presently available in the BVI but it can be purchased at my studio in Dominica. The book is however available as an eBook at: https://www.studiopublications.org

    Additionally, in the 1980's I made a detailed record of every historical site in the BVI that dates from the plantation period.
  • Comedy (07/11/2024, 11:48) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    Beware of fake history.
  • Let Us Get Real (07/11/2024, 14:00) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    Recently while viewing a Black American return tour of Ghana their slave dungeons were the highlights. We have one in Pock Wood Pond but I am not sure of the condition as not even the road seem to exist anymore. These are the type of structures that are of high value and interest to visitors. Historic Sites, museums and local produce including art and craft as well as sight seeing tours and beaches are some of the areas that are of interest to most cruise ship passengers.
  • Blind Man (07/11/2024, 21:50) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    The bvi has lost its historial sites due to the facts that land owners were not intrested in preserving them .most of our history departed during 1672 and were taken to St kitts and facts about wilhem Huntum and the dutch West indies vital roll in the Tortola and virgin gorda. Joost van dyk the very first dutchman to have settle in west end in 1615 that traded with the spanish and the island just van dyke name after him we have history to tell not to mention about sopher hole piratas den after raids by well known piratas like black board who got the name for his fierces look before a raíd would put Firefox crackers and light them to frigthen his oppents.


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