Wheatley: It would be interesting how UK promotes the VI!
Speaking on his radio programme “Speak Out BVI” last evening May 1, 2012, Wheatley said the UK is going through their trials and tribulations, therefore he doesn’t know how much “they will do for us with our tourism.”
The British MP, at a joint press conference between himself and Premier Dr. D. Orlando Smith on April 23, 2012, had stated that as the “champion” in London for Overseas Territories (OTs), he will continue to push for the promotion and marketing of OTs tourism, particularly the Virgin Islands “because your tourism offer is quite superb. It’s one of the best in the world.”
“I guess MP Bellingham answered the question because he was asked and I guess he felt he had to say something,” Wheatley added.
Bellingham, who visited the VI for the first time, had stated that he was impressed with the beauty of the VI, and upon his return to the United Kingdom, he will discuss his ideas with the VI’s representative office in London to “actually promote the BVI as a destination to British citizens as being something that is really different, unique and hopefully more attractive to them than going say to a French country in the Caribbean or an Independent country.”
He also pledged to speak with players in the UK’s travel industry. “There is a growing appetite for tourism to exotic places and it is a very competitive and tough market out there…. and certainly if I was a loyal British citizen and I had X money to spend I would go to an Overseas Territory.”


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