Can my customers search for hotels near a particular place, like a hospital or a wedding venue?

Yes, in most cases you can, although how precise it gets depends on the supplier data sitting behind the search.

Hotel booking APIs normally allow a few ways of searching. The simplest is by city or region, which returns everything your suppliers hold in that area. Many also accept a point on the map, meaning a set of coordinates plus a distance you choose, so you can ask for hotels within a short radius of one spot. Some suppliers additionally carry a list of well known landmarks, airports, stations and districts that you can search against by name. If the place your customer cares about is a small local venue, such as a particular hospital, church or wedding hall, it will usually not exist as a named landmark in the supplier data, so the practical approach is to search around its map location instead.

Results normally come back with each hotel's address and its coordinates, which means your portal can plot them on a map and sort them by distance from the point you picked. How trustworthy that distance is depends on how accurate the supplier's location data is for each property, and that does vary between suppliers and between countries. Before you put it in front of customers, it is worth spot checking a few hotels you already know well to see whether they appear where you would expect.

A good next step is to tell us the kinds of searches your customers ask for most often, so we can confirm which of your suppliers support them and set up the search options on your portal to match.