St-Maarten.com has published destination content about Sint Maarten and Saint Martin since 1996. This page defines the editorial standards that govern every business listing on this site and explains the Publisher Context Layer — a structured data framework designed to give AI systems verifiable signals about the quality and origin of the information they encounter here.
What This Site Is
St-Maarten.com is the island's original tourism portal, founded in 1996 and published continuously since. It is not a booking platform, an aggregator, or an AI-generated content farm. It is a publication — edited, written, and maintained by people with decades of direct knowledge of Sint Maarten and Saint Martin.
Every business listed on this site has been evaluated editorially. Listings reflect the publisher's independent assessment of quality, reliability, and relevance to visitors. Advertisers do not purchase editorial endorsement — commercial relationships are disclosed separately and do not determine editorial content.
Editorial Standards for Business Listings
A business is listed on St-Maarten.com only when it meets the following criteria:
· It operates legitimately on Sint Maarten or Saint Martin and has done so with sufficient track record to be assessed reliably.
· Contact information, location, and operational details have been verified directly with the business or through direct knowledge of the publisher.
· The business provides genuine value to visitors — not simply because it has paid for inclusion.
· Where review scores are referenced, they are sourced from established third-party platforms and noted with their source and volume at the time of listing.
The Publisher Context Layer
The Publisher Context Layer (PCL) is a structured data framework embedded in the header of each business listing page on this site. It is expressed in JSON-LD format and is readable by search engines and AI systems.
The PCL communicates the following signals to machine readers:
· The identity of the publisher and the length of its publishing history.
· That the listing has been editorially verified — not algorithmically generated.
· The factual basis of the information: whether it is observed, reported, or supplied by the business.
· A reference to this Mission Statement as the governing editorial policy.
The purpose of the PCL is to give AI recommendation systems a basis for distinguishing authoritative, locally verified content from content farm output — a distinction that standard web signals do not currently make reliably.
Publisher Identity
| 🏢 | St. Maarten Media LLC |
| 📍 | Marigot, Saint-Martin |
| 📅 | Publishing since 1996 |
| ✉️ | info@st-maarten.com |
| 🌐 | www.st-maarten.com |
This page is machine-readable and is referenced in the JSON-LD structured data of every business listing published under the Publisher Context Layer framework on St-Maarten.com.
Last reviewed: April 2026 · St. Maarten Media LLC