Hotels Schema.org
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I am looking at potentially using some Schema mark up on hotel listing pages. This is for an OTA where lots of hotels from all over the world are available for selection (think hotels.com, booking.com, agoda.com etc)
For the itemscope itemtype on say the hotel name should I be defining it as http://schema.org/hotel or http://schema.org/localbusiness
For example against the hotel name I would have:
Grand Plaza Hanoi
I assume its the former, but I was just after some 2nd opinions.
Thanks,
Ben
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Their current solution seems to be something along the lines of:
***** Rating: 8.4/10 - 900 Reviews
almost forcing two different review "views" into the same listing, which seems a little dumb from a UI perspective.
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Thanks again,
This is an area where Google seem a bit pants to be honest. I have seen loads of examples where a hotel might have a rating of 7 out of 10 and Google shows 5 stars in the rich snippet data.
Not exactly a great user experience right there.
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Boom:
<div< span="">itemprop="reviewRating" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Rating">
<meta< span="">itemprop="worstRating" content = "1">
<span< span="">itemprop="ratingValue">1</span<>/
<span< span="">itemprop="bestRating">5</span<>stars</meta<></div<>See this URL for better details: http://schema.org/Review
For the overall rating, you'll want to use http://schema.org/AggregateRating which can also be done on a larger scale.
I have only seen examples of Google using 5 star reviews in their rich snippets. I have not yet seen an example of 4 or 10 star rankings used in rich snippets. Maybe they'll adopt it down the road, maybe they'll convert to 5 stars, or maybe they'll continue ignoring it. Perhaps just consider displaying the aggregate rating as a 5 star scale, and the rest as 10?
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Thanks Kane - looks like I am on the right track then. The other area I am struggling on is the mark up around reviews / star ratings.
i.e., what happens if your star ratings aren't out of 5? Google seems to make a mess of the display. I.e., I can find a hotel with a rating of 7/10 where Google will show it as 5 star in the results set.
So do I try and force the adoption of using a scale from 1-5 or is it possible to use schema mark up on a 1-10 scale?
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Yup, take a look at the microdata generator for restaurants (none built for hotels yet that I have seen):
http://www.microdatagenerator.com/restaurant-schema
That gives you a good comparison for how the hotel format should look. Here's an example implementation for a restaurant:
Name of Restaurant
4 stars -
based on 321 reviews123 Fake Street
Seattle ,
Washington
98146(206) 123-4321
URL of MapCategories: American
Price Range: $$
Takes Reservations: No
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