Can my customers search for hotels near a specific landmark or venue instead of a whole city?

Yes, in most cases they can, although how precise the search is depends on the hotel booking API you are connected to and the information the supplier holds for each property. Searching around a single point is a common feature because so many travellers are booking for a wedding venue, a hospital, a conference centre or a stadium rather than a city in general.

The usual way this works is that your search page sends a location point and a distance radius to the API instead of a city name. The results then come back as a list of properties that fall inside that circle, and they can be sorted so the nearest ones appear first. Some suppliers also keep their own list of popular landmarks and airports, so your customer can pick from a dropdown and the system fills in the location point behind the scenes. Either way, the customer sees a simple search box and does not need to know anything about coordinates.

There are honest limits worth knowing. The distance shown is normally a straight line, not a walking or driving route, so a hotel listed as very close may still be on the other side of a river or a motorway. Accuracy also depends on the location the supplier has recorded for each hotel, and occasionally that is slightly off or set to the middle of the district rather than the exact street. Not every supplier accepts a point and radius search either, as a few will only take a city or region, so what you can offer may differ between the sources feeding your portal.

A good next step is to run a test search around a venue you know well and check whether the nearest properties really are the ones you would expect, then ask which of your connected suppliers support landmark searching before you promise it to clients.