"Everythingstmaarten.com" To Give Away
Ten Weeks of St. Maarten Vacations Dec. 12
(Plymouth, Massachusetts, December 6, 2007) --- The Town Manager and Assistant Town Manager of Plymouth, Massachusetts, will draw the winners of ten St. Maarten vacations next Wednesday as the Plymouth-based website "Everythingstmaarten.com" concludes its celebration of reaching two million site visits by going after a Guinness World Record.
Plymouth Town Manager Mark Sylvia and Assistant Town Manager Melissa Arrighi will draw the winners at 9:10 a. m. Eastern time Dec. 12 at radio station WATD (95.9 fm), an event which will be broadcast live on the station and on its website and simulcast in St. Maarten on "Island 92" 91.9 fm. The drawing will be streamed worldwide on the stations' websites, www.959watd.com and www.island92.com.
The everythingstmaarten.com website has quietly accumulated more than two million site visits, most of them in the last two or three years. The site -- which started as a writing sample on a Plymouth, Massachusetts PR company's website 12 years ago -- provides news and travel advice about the popular half-Dutch, half-French Caribbean island.
"This St. Maarten website started as an accident," admits its reluctant founder, Jeff Berger, owner of JMB Communications, the company that posted the original writing sample in 1995. "When search engines kicked in, they found my writing sample, and business-owner friends on St. Maarten starting calling us. I had no idea why until I did a search for St. Maarten and found my writing sample."
Today the site has more than 120 pages and publishes two free weekly newsletters -- one offering general news of interest to tourists, the other oriented toward timeshare owners. Known both as everythingstmaarten.com and everythingstmartin.com, to reflect both the Dutch and French-Side spellings, Berger's St. Maarten website offers details about island restaurants, resorts, villas, beaches, tours, and shopping.
Berger says the top winner will be able to choose four one-week stays from a list of 10 destinations -- among them two hotels, Divi Little Bay Beach Resort and Summit Resort Hotel, one naturist resort -- Club Orient on Orient Beach, French St. Martin, a luxury catamaran from Tradewinds Cruise Club, and six villas on both sides of the island. The top prize also includes jewelry gift certificates, day sails, and many gourmet dinners.
Six other winners will each win one-week vacations.
A complete list of prizes is at http://www.jmbcommunications.com/sxm/nine.html . Entries are being accepted until December 11.
