The St. Maarten Tourist Bureau hosted Ms. Courtney Elko an associate editor from Family Vacation Critic, A TripAdvisor Company. Ms. Elko visited some hotel properties, restaurants, beaches and activities. She toured the Dutch side the first three days and the French side the remaining three days.
Family Vacation Critic, A TripAdvisor Company caters to family vacations with the objective of stimulating families to select St. Maarten for their vacation. Their 750,000 UV’s (Unique Visitors) per month turn to Family Vacation Critic, for articles and reviews around popular family destinations like St. Maarten, hotels, attractions and more. They are currently growing their destination content so that they can better suit their audience (mostly moms, ages 25-45) and selected St. Maarten to be a part of that growth.”
TripAdvisor offers advice from millions of travelers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features with seamless links to booking tools that check hundreds of websites to find the best hotel prices. Considered the largest travel site globally, Trip Advisor has: 78 million Trip Advisor members and 340 million unique monthly visitors.
Over 225 million reviews and opinions of hotels, restaurants, attractions and other travel-related businesses.
139 user contributions every minute to their site.
Hosting her will complement the Government and private sector’s “save the summer” initiatives on Trip Advisor. This campaign will showcase specials on St. Maarten and its participating hoteliers to drive business to the island during the summer months when it is most needed.