This pull-request addresses #915

Dear all:

Ioan Toma (STI Innsbruck) and I have worked for almost a year on a small yet extendable proposal on how to cover the hotels and other forms of accommodations in schema.org.

Today, we are happy to present a ready-to-run pull request for better support for hotel-related information in schema.org.

We spent a lot of effort into condensing the proposal into a small set of additions and were able to reduce it to 13 new classes and 18 new properties (listed below).

A preview of the extension is available from

• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com (e.g. http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/HotelRoom)

The proposal comes with a substantial amount of examples and explanations at

• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/docs/hotels.html

Note that these explanations are to the most part explaining the use of the existing schema.org elements, namely for http://schema.org/Offer. The actual extension proposal is very straightforward and compact and reuses the existing schema.org patterns and idioms as much as possible.

We tested it against multiple tourism-related interface standards and existing hotel Web sites in several face-to-face workshops.

Any questions? Suggestions? We would love to hear them!

Best wishes

Martin Hepp and Ioan Toma

New Classes

• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/Resort
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/CampingSite
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/Accommodation
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/Room
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/HotelRoom
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/MeetingRoom
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/CampingPitch
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/Suite
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/House
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/Apartment
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/AccommodationFeature
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/BedDetails
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/BedType

New Properties:

• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/feature
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/optionalFeature
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/includedFeature
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/typeOfBed
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/permittedUsage
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/occupancyAdults
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/bed
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/numberOfRooms
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/occupancyMinors
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/accommodationSize
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/occupancy
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/availabilityTimes
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/gated
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/petsAllowed
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/smokingAllowed
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/numberOfBeds
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/starRating
• http://sdo-hotels.appspot.com/schema.org/roomNumber