As the exclusive publishing partner of the U.S. Virgin Islands Hotel & Tourism Association (USVIHTA), North South Net, Inc. (NSN) is the official publisher of the Visit St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix in-room hotel magazine. Our goal is to promote the U.S. Virgin Islands to potential visitors, increase the actual number of overnight guests, and provide on-island visitors with the highest quality information to enable them to make the best choices during their vacation. This benefits a wide range of businesses across the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Visit St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix is a high-quality, full-color upscale magazine that will be placed on an EXCLUSIVE basis in the guest rooms of over 100 hotels comprising more than 5,500 rooms in St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix covering the vast majority of overnight visitors to the islands.
In order to generate more visitors to the U.S. Virgin Islands, NSN provides the USVIHTA with a substantial print and radio advertising budget for use in USVI’s key airlift markets across the United States. NSN has also developed and funded a number of other programs with USVIHTA that will increase the number of tourists to the island.
By supporting our partnership with your advertising, you are supporting the USVIHTA, helping to increase the number of tourists to the U.S. Virgin Islands and providing these tourists with the means to make the best choices during their stay. Below you will find all the reasons why you should make Visit St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix your primary advertising choice for 2021/2022.
Why advertise in Visit St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix?
- It is the official in-room magazine of the U.S. Virgin Islands Hotel & Tourism Association (USVIHTA).
- It is distributed EXCLUSIVELY and prominently displayed in more than 5,500 hotel rooms throughout St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.
- It reaches almost all the overnight visitors in St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix, providing advertisers with access to a captive audience and the largest number of accommodations on the islands.
- You will reach upscale visitors in the comfort of their hotel room or villa while they are planning what to see and do, where to shop, dine and more.
- You will receive FREE window decals exclusively for USVIHTA members to proudly display.
Visit St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix is the best media buy in the USVI by miles. Can you afford NOT to be in it?
Additional benefits FREE of charge:
DIGITAL MAGAZINE (E-ZINE)
A digital version of the magazine appears on the USVIHTA website at no additional cost to advertisers, thereby reaching visitors before they arrive. The e-zine allows readers to easily share the magazine via email to a much larger audience. In addition, it contains interactive features including active hyperlinks to advertiser sites, quick links to ads and content, thumbnails and a printable PDF of each page. It is promoted to the USVI’s top tour operators so they can share it with their clients before they reach our islands. A link to the digital magazine can also be sent out by hotels with booking confirmations.
VISIT USVI MOBILE APPS
A mobile app for tablets and smartphones contains information from Visit St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix magazine and is promoted on the USVIHTA website to tour operators and their clients. This easily downloadable app provides everything a visitor needs to know while on vacation and provides another platform for additional advertising exposure.
LOCAL RADIO SPOTS
Radio spots run on the island’s most popular radio stations promoting the magazine to island visitors as the leading source of information about St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.
VISIT ON THE GO
• Distributed free in high traffic area locations
• One price includes in-room, high traffic locations, web links, inclusion in Visit USVI App and map listing
• Informative, user friendly and easy to carry
• Features all there is to do: shopping, dining, watersports, land sports, sightseeing, history, art, culture, weddings and more...
• Official book of the USVI Hotel & Tourism Association
Already featured in Visit St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix? Come by the USVIHTA office to pick up a decal with the QR code that you can display at your business!
