The US Virgin Islands Is Extra Standard Than Ever, Buoyed By New St Thomas and St Croix Flights

Vacationers are making a beeline for one explicit vacation spot within the Caribbean proper now: the US Virgin Islands, which continues to shine within the post-pandemic interval with blazing vacationer arrival numbers, Caribbean Journal has realized. 

The US Virgin Islands is projecting a 24 % improve in airlift arrivals this yr in comparison with 2023, officers revealed this week. 

That’s a conservative estimate, although: precise arrivals within the first quarter of 2024 had been really up 26.5 % over the identical interval final yr. 

Whereas the USVI has a really sturdy residence sharing economic system sector, resort occupancy has additionally been sturdy, with a 12.4 % soar up to now this yr, and resort tax revenues up by 24 %. 

The expansion has been pushed by a number of components, from artistic, focused advertising and marketing (just like the vacation spot’s revolutionary sports activities advertising and marketing partnerships) to a cumulative impact from its sturdy efficiency since Covid. 

However the largest factor has been airlift, with new flights everywhere in the territory. 

That features St Croix, which simply welcomed new Frontier Airways flights from San Juan this summer time, and can quickly obtain flights on an identical route from JetBlue in December. 

For St Thomas, the story is comparable, with extra flights on American, Delta, United Spirit, Solar Nation, JetBlue and Frontier, all of which have added extra weekly flights to the island this yr.