Page Summary
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Google displays your hotel attribute data on Search and Maps.
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You can send this data using the Google Lodging Format.
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You can either embed lodging data in your existing hotel list feed or set up a dedicated file transfer.
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Embedding data in the hotel list feed is the preferred method.
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Contact your technical account manager if you need to set up a dedicated file transfer.
Overview
Google shows your hotel attribute data across Search and Maps. You can send this data to Google with the Google Lodging Format .
To send Google your lodging data, you can either embed the data in your hotel list feed (preferred method) or set up a dedicated file transfer. The following sections cover each option.
Embed data in your hotel list feed
If you have an existing hotel list feed
,
you can include the lodging data in the <attributes>
section under the <client_attr name="lodging">
. The value for this attribute is the
Base64-encoded string of the encoded Lodging
proto for the listing. Using
this method, the Lodging.place_id
field should be the Hotel ID of the
specific listing entry in your feed.
Additional references
For more information, see the following:
Set up a dedicated file transfer
If you aren't able to include the lodging data directly in the listing entry,
you can set up a separate hosted file transfer. The Lodging
proto data can be
formatted as a textproto or JSON. The setup is very similar to that of the hotel listing feed
. Contact
your technical account manager (TAM) for help setting this up.
