INDEXING TRAVEL ACCOMMODATIONS IN A NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A method for evaluating travel accommodations is provided that includes identifying a plurality of hotel properties and assigning a hotel marketability index score to one or more of the properties such that one or more of the properties may be ranked. The hotel marketability index score may be based on a selected one or more characteristics associated with one or more of the hotel properties, the characteristics including rate competitiveness, hotel availability, hotel location within a cluster location, and hotel quality within the cluster location.

主权项

1. A data processing method, comprising:
storing data associated with one or more travel characteristics of an end user and a plurality of end user consumer events in a profile; creating and storing a hotel marketability index score for each of one or more hotel properties using a weighted sum of one or more travel characteristics associated with one or more of the hotel properties, wherein the travel characteristics include hotel location within a cluster location, hotel quality within the cluster location and at least one of rate competitiveness and hotel availability; modifying weights of the travel characteristics associated with one or more of the hotel properties according to an occurrence of one or more of the end user sorting hotels by proximity and at least one of rate, star ranking, and value; ranking the hotel properties in an order based on the hotel marketability index; wherein the method is performed using one or more computing devices.