The Virgin Islands tourism industry is suspended for a major jump in the figure of its accommodations that will be timeshares quite than hotel rooms - and business leaders are coming up to see how the budge could vary both visitors' habits and the revenues that tourism produces for the management.

The Ritz-Carlton St. Thomas in June completed converting 48 of its lodge rooms to two-bedroom console timeshare suites, adding up the units to its 80 Ritz-Carlton Club fractional ownership units.

The Westin St. John Resort & Villas is varying extra than 186 hotel rooms into 94 two- and three-bedroom vacation villas, adding up them to the 93 villas the remedy previously had presented for timeshare possession. Once the Bay Vista adaptation development is complete, the resort will include just 100 standard hotel rooms left.