Virgin Holidays is offering the chance to win a free trip to St Lucia if the name on your passport is Lucy or Lucia - sorry Linda.
Ahead of International Women's Day this Friday Virgin Holidays is shining a light on St Lucia, the only nation in the world to be named after a woman, by giving its namesakes across the UK a chance to travel there and pay the island a visit.
The competition starts today and runs until Monday and anyone with the name Lucy or Lucia on their passport is eligible to enter.
To launch the first-of-its-kind competition, three Virgin Holidays travel consultants who share their name with the nation, Lucy Messina, Lucy McManus and Lucy Hudson, travelled to the beautiful Caribbean island of St Lucia to check it out for themselves.
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Virgin Holidays Travel Consultant, Lucy Hudson, enthused: "Saint Lucia is such an incredible country with beautiful scenery and beautiful people.
"I'm so proud to be able to claim the same name and link to the only nation it the world named after a woman - and now Lucys all over the UK have the chance to experience it too."
Virgin Holidays Managing Director, Joe Thompson, added: "We wanted to celebrate St Lucia's place in the world - the one country named after a woman - by empowering St Lucie's namesakes, Lucys and Lucias across the UK, with the opportunity to visit this tropical island paradise."
So why's the island called St Lucia, anyway? 'Discovered' by French explorers in the Caribbean sea, they named it after a Christian martyr, St Lucy of Syracuse, who was persecuted and killed by the Romans in 304AD. So now you know.
Tiffany Howard, acting CEO of the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority, who won't be able to enter the competition said: "We commend everyone's contribution to the growth and success of travel and tourism in Saint Lucia."
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