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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):

{
  "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

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:

@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}
}

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