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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)
+
+Have questions or need a refreshed dump? Open an issue or reach out! 📨