Sept. 24, 2007 -- Compared to giant travel sites like Travelocity, Expedia, and Orbitz, "everythingstmaarten.com" is tiny: it gets a few thousand visitors a day, on average, and is hardly ever the topic of conversation at cocktail parties when the subject of vacations comes up -- unless those conversations regard the island of St. Maarten.

The website has quietly accumulated nearly two million site visits in the last few years, and is about to give away ten one-week St. Maarten vacations to celebrate -- something the big guys have probably never done.

For people who visit St. Maarten, everythingstmaarten.com -- which started as one of many writing samples on a Plymouth, Massachusetts-based PR company's website some 12 years ago -- is a source of news and information about the popular half-Dutch, half-French island in the northeastern Caribbean.

"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 is more than 100 pages long and is the source of two free weekly St. Maarten newsletters -- one offering general news of interest to tourists, the other oriented toward the needs of 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.

Berger says that he already has paperwork to apply for a "Guinness World Record" for the 10-vacation giveaway when the site actually picks winners in the next several weeks.