Travel Writer of Lonely Planet Visits Statia

Travel Writer Brandon Presser, right, and Mr Roland Lopes, Public Relations, St.Eustatius Tourism Development Foundation.


ST. EUSTATIUS— Brandon Presser, a writer with Lonely Planet, visited St. Eustatius Feb. 2nd to 5th 2008, to gather information of St.Eustatius for a travel guide being prepared by his company. The guide he is working on will cover all of the Caribbean islands, but he is concentrating on this trip on just five: Statia, Saba, St. Maarten, Anguilla, and St. Barths.
Hosted by the St. Eustatius Tourism Development Foundation, Presser climbed to the top of the Quill and went scuba diving. He especially liked some of the wreck dive sites.
He says his organization tries to find tourism destinations that are a little different from those that are better known. He especially liked Statia, because, he said, “the island has not sold out to tourism.” In addition, the friendly Statia custom of saying hello to everyone you meet, whether you know him or her or not, impressed him.