With traditional tourism hammered by the pandemic, islands across the Caribbean like Bermuda are trying to attract longer-term visitors. — NICOLA MUIRHEAD/Bloomberg
As soon as London’s first coronavirus lockdown ended last summer, Abbie Sheppard, 24, took a quick vacation to the island of Bermuda.
Four months later, the vacation is long over but she’s still there – one of the thousands of people lured to islands in the Caribbean and the North Atlantic by programmes aimed at snagging remote workers. “I just never went back, ” Sheppard, the chief of staff at the celebrity-booking company Cameo, said by telephone.
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