Your numbers tell the real story of UberSoca 2025 in the BVI.
Please take five minutes to show us what happened in your business.
When you’re ready, the survey begins at the bottom of this page.
When a big event like the UberSoca Cruise comes to the BVI, we see the crowds, the music, and the activity. But to truly know what it did for our economy, we need one thing we can’t guess: your numbers.
This short survey is part of a national effort to measure how visitor spending flows through local businesses, from restaurants and bars to taxis, vendors, shops, and service providers.
Your responses will help us answer simple but important questions:
Did businesses really earn more on the day?
Which sectors benefited most?
Where did we miss opportunities?
We can’t measure that from an office. We can only measure it with your help.
Who Should Fill Out This Survey?
If you did business on the day of the UberSoca Cruise visit, this survey is for you:
Restaurants, bars, cafés
Retail shops (including Pier Park and town)
Street vendors and pop-up stalls
Taxi and transportation operators
Tour operators and experience providers
Beauty, wellness, and personal services
Event, sound, and logistics providers
Any other business that saw (or expected) activity linked to the cruise
It doesn’t matter if you are a large business, micro-business, or a one-person operation, every response counts.
What We’ll Ask You (In Simple Terms)
The survey focuses on just a few key questions:
Did your business open on the day of the UberSoca visit?
How did your total sales on that day compare to a normal day?
Roughly how much did you earn in gross sales in light of the UberSoca visit?
Did you hire extra staff, buy extra stock, or pay for extra services because of it?
What did visitors ask for that you couldn’t provide or didn’t have available?
You can give rough estimates.
They don’t need to be perfect.
How Your Information Will Be Used
We want to be very clear. This survey is not a tax check. It is not an audit. Your individual responses will not be published.
Here’s what will happen instead:
Your answers will be combined with others to show overall trends – for example,
“40% of food businesses saw higher sales than normal”
“Average uplift in sales was between X% and Y%”
“Top unmet demand: more late-night food, more transport options, more local products.”
Results will be shared in summary form only, as part of a public economic impact brief.
No single business will be named or identified by its numbers.
The goal is simple: use evidence to plan better events, better support, and better opportunities for businesses across the BVI.
Why Your Participation Matters
Government can design policies, host events, and create opportunities for the economy to grow, but it can’t measure or maximise those opportunities alone.
Your response helps to:
Show whether public spending on events actually benefits businesses.
Identify which sectors gain the most, and which ones get left out.
Highlight gaps in transport, services, and supply so we can fix them next time.
Build a fair, data-driven case for future events, support, and investment.
Every completed survey makes the national conversation about UberSoca less guesswork and more real-world experience.
Privacy & Contact
If you have any questions about how the data will be used, you can reach out to:
Contact: Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development
Email: mtcsd@gov.vg
Phone: 1(284) 468-2161