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---

license: other
license_name: bright-data-master-service-agreement
license_link: https://brightdata.com/license
language:
- en
tags:
- travel
- hospitality
- booking
- hotels
- hotel
- pricing‑data
- tabular‑data
pretty_name: 'Booking.com Listings '
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---


# Booking Listings – *Free Cancellation*  🏨✈️

**Booking Listings** is a structured snapshot of accommodation offers worldwide as listed on **Booking.com**.
This subset contains **only properties that offer *free cancellation***, enabling analysts and data scientists to study flexible‑booking behaviour, derive pricing strategies, and build recommendation or revenue‑management systems.

> **Highlights**
>
> * 75 k hotels & apartments across **84 countries**
> * Rich pricing & availability metadata (final vs. original price, tax descriptions, currency, sustainability flags)
> * Guest sentiment — review score & count
> * Property configuration: bedrooms, kitchens, beds, star rating, sustainability level, ***free‑cancellation‑until*** timestamp
> * Scraped **Mar 19 2025** with Bright Data Web Scraper

---

## Dataset Summary

| Metric          | Value                                             |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| Records         | ≈ 75 000 (filtered free‑cancellation subset)      |
| Columns         | 36                                                |
| Time range      | Check‑in/out dates centred on **19 Mar 2025**     |

## Supported Tasks

* **Travel recommendation & personalisation** – rank properties by flexibility, price trends, amenities.
* **Dynamic pricing / revenue management** – benchmark competitors that allow free cancellation to fine‑tune rates.
* **Market research & trend analysis** – assess demand elasticity towards cancellation policies in different regions.
* **Real‑estate & investment insights** – locate high‑rated, sustainable, or luxury properties with lenient policies.

## Languages

All textual fields are in **English**. Currency codes follow ISO‑4217.

---

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

Each row represents a single property returned by a user search (one check‑in/out pair). Below is a truncated example (JSON Lines):

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.booking.com/hotel/au/the-westin-perth.html?...",
  "location": "Perth",
  "check_in": "2025-03-19T00:00:00Z",
  "check_out": "2025-03-20T00:00:00Z",
  "adults": 1,
  "rooms": 1,
  "id": 3052882,
  "title": "The Westin Perth",
  "city": "Perth",
  "review_score": 8.8,
  "review_count": 1250,
  "image": "https://cf.bstatic.com/xdata/images/hotel/...jpg",
  "final_price": 47249,
  "original_price": 47249,
  "currency": "JPY",
  "free_cancellation": true,
  "free_cancellation_until": "2025-03-18T16:00:00Z",
  "hotel_rank": 77,
  "star_rating": null,
  "tags": null,
  ...
}
```

### Data Fields

| Column                    | Type                 | Description                                         |
| ------------------------- | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| `url`                     | string (URL)         | Direct link to the property listing.                |
| `location`                | string               | General destination (city/area) of the property.    |
| `check_in`                | datetime             | Requested check‑in date.                            |
| `check_out`               | datetime             | Requested check‑out date.                           |
| `adults`                  | int                  | Number of adults in the query.                      |
| `children`                | int \| null          | Number of children (if provided).                   |
| `rooms`                   | int                  | Rooms requested.                                    |
| `id`                      | string               | Booking.com property identifier.                    |
| `title`                   | string               | Property name.                                      |
| `address`                 | string               | Street address.                                     |
| `city`                    | string               | City name (may differ from `location`).             |
| `review_score`            | float                | Average guest rating (0‑10).                        |
| `review_count`            | int                  | Number of reviews.                                  |
| `image`                   | string (URL \| null) | Thumbnail of main image.                            |
| `final_price`             | float                | Price returned by search (includes taxes).          |
| `original_price`          | float                | Original price before discounts.                    |
| `currency`                | string               | ISO‑4217 currency code.                             |
| `tax_description`         | string \| null       | Additional taxes/fees description.                  |
| `nb_bedrooms`             | int                  | Number of bedrooms.                                 |
| `nb_all_beds`             | int                  | Total beds available.                               |
| `full_location`           | string               | Normalised “City, Country” location.                |
| `free_cancellation`       | bool                 | *Always `true`* in this subset.                     |
| `free_cancellation_until` | datetime \| null     | Deadline for free cancellation.                     |
| `property_sustainability` | JSON                 | Sustainability metadata + facility codes.           |
| `hotel_rank`              | int                  | Position in Booking search results.                 |
| `searched_country`        | string               | 2‑letter country code of the search.                |
| `map_coordinates`         | struct               | `{ "lat": float, "lon": float }` (may be null).     |
| `listing_country`         | string               | Country where property is located.                  |
| `total_listings_found`    | int                  | Total search results for query.                     |
| `star_rating`             | int \| null          | 1‑5 stars.                                          |
| `tags`                    | string \| null       | Booking‑generated tags (e.g. "Travel Sustainable"). |
| nb_livingrooms          | int   | Number of living rooms in the property.          |
| nb_kitchens             | int   | Number of kitchens in the property.              |
| no_prepayment           | bool  | Indicates if prepayment is not required.         |

Nested object keys:

full_location → description, main_distance, display_location, beach_distance, nearby_beach_names

property_sustainability → is_sustainable, level_id, facilities

---

## Data Splits

| Split   | Rows  | Description                     |
| ------- | ----- | ------------------------------- |
| `train` | 0     | *not applicable*                |
| `test`  | 0     | *not applicable*                |
| `all`   | ≈ 75k | Complete snapshot (single CSV). |

This dataset is delivered as **one CSV file** (`booking_listings.csv`).

---

## Usage Example

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset(
    "BrightData/booking_listings",
    data_files="booking_listings.csv",
    split="train",   
)
print(ds[0]["title"], ds[0]["free_cancellation_until"])
```

---

## Source & Methodology

Data was collected on **19 Mar 2025** using the **Bright Data Infrastructure** and publicly available Booking.com search results.
For this subset, we retained only listings where the *free cancellation* flag was **`true`**.

---

## Citation

If you use this dataset in your work, please cite it as:

```bibtex
@dataset{booking_listings_free_cancel_2025,
  author       = {Bright Data},
  title        = {Booking Listings – Free Cancellation Subset},
  year         = {2025},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/BrightData/Booking-Listings},
  note         = {Scraped via Bright Data on 2025‑03‑19}
}
```

---

## Maintainers

**Bright Data**
[@Bright Data](https://github.com/luminati-io)

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