The powers that be on both islands do not want the tourist riding ferries between the two island state/nations. Even if the BVI were to come around on this. The folks on St. Thomas want no part of it. As others have posted. STT is full and St. Thomas has no interest in becoming or further growing into the industrial airport and bus station for the BVI.

Please consider this. What would your villa rent for in the market and how many days of rents could you reach with daily direct jet service from the US East Coast? That is the driver. The same or even fewer visitors each year spending more money per day at least ten months out of the year. Long term grandparent or daddy rentals with the kids coming and going on their schedule. Medical tourism will be a growing market where the flights and housing make it practical and enjoyable. I agree the outright raising of any fee is distasteful. The best option is to increase the daily visitor spend and the number of visitor days across the 12 months while collecting the same 10 or so percent of each dollar and soon to be every single dollar spent. I suspect the BVI will be paying the airlines to fly the routes and if anyone is billed a transit fee it will be the non belongers bypassing EIS and using the ferries.