Booking-com/accommodation-reviews

Booking.com Accommodation Review Dataset

This repository contains the training set of the user-generated review dataset of Booking.com reviews. The training set contains about 1.6M reviews from 40k accommodations around the world. All reviews were written by guests who stayed at the accommodation.

The dataset consists of English reviews published in 2023. All reviews have passed a moderation process ensuring they are genuine and do not violate the platform guidelines. In order to preserve user privacy, no personally identifiable information was included in the data. Similarly, to protect business-sensitive statistics, the dataset is limited to only tens of thousands accommodations. Finally, we selected only informative reviews that include at least 3 topics based on the Text2topic model.

The following table describes the fields in the dataset:

Column	Description
review_title	The title of the review
review_positive	Positive ("liked") section in review.
review_negative	Negative ("disliked") section in review.
guest_score	Review score for the stay
review_helpful_votes	How many users marked the review as helpful
guest_type	There are 4 types of traveller types: Solo traveller (1 adult) / Couple (2 adults) / Group (>2 adults) / Family with children (adults & children)
guest_country	Anonymized country from which the reservation was made
room_nights	The length of the reservation, i.e. number of nights booked
month	The month of the check-in date of the reservation
accommodation_id	An anonymized accommodation ID
accommodation_type	The type of the accommodation, e.g. hotel, apartment, hostel
accommodation_score	The overall average guest review score for the accommodation
accommodation_country	Country of the accommodation
accommodation_star_rating	Accommodation star rating is provided by the property, and is usually determined by an official accommodation rating organisation or another third party
location_is_beach	Is the accommodation located in a beach location
location_is_ski	Is the accommodation located in a ski location
location_is_city_center	Is the accommodation located in the city center

License

The dataset is published under the following non-commercial license

Citation

Paper on arXiv

@misc{igebaria2024enhancingtraveldecisionmakingcontrastive,
      title={Enhancing Travel Decision-Making: A Contrastive Learning Approach for Personalized Review Rankings in Accommodations}, 
      author={Reda Igebaria and Eran Fainman and Sarai Mizrachi and Moran Beladev and Fengjun Wang},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2407.00787},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00787}, 
}