HOTEL RECOMMENDATION ON EXPEDIA DATA
Abstract : Data Science is a very popular approach in the business industry to deliver customer needs right at their finger-tips. Data science has numerous amount of use cases. We are tackling one of those use cases of recommending a hotel to a user based on his behavior around the Expedia website. Expedia is a popular Fortune 500 travel company with hotels all around the world. It is the most popular travel company in America and second worldwide to Booking.com. We will be using several supervised algorithms and recommendation algorithms to recommend a hotel to the customer. Recommendation systems are systems that suggest items to the customers using customer preferences, item attributes, etc. We have all heard the saying 'the world is a small place' but when it comes to storing data about all different countries, regions and continents, it gets ver...