domain/country/town better than domain/town?

hotels case

[silverbytes]

Scenario:

Hotel guide has clients from 2 different countries, and different regions or towns. They are all together in a single page right now.
But I'm sure that a better folders structure would benefit the rank.

What is the best option:

1)www.domain.com/hotels/ > all together

2)www.domain.com./country1/ > all countries hotels together

3)www.domain.com./country1/town1/ > all town's hotel together

Thougths?

[fathom]

If there is significant town / hotel references in each country I would lean more to

town.domain.com/country/hotel.html

The rational - searcher looking for accommodation will most certainly query location with hotel.

This would be good where locations have many in the area.

If few country.domain.com/town/hotel.html would probably be better.

[silverbytes]

I agree. But I was pointing to what effect causes in PR, the url domain/country/town/hotel against just domain/hotel...

Will search engines love my domain/country/town/hotel directory, if you think about it that would be:

keywordinmydomain/country/town-morespecifc-still-/hotel-probably-whit-keyword-too!

What do you think?

[ukgimp]

I would not worry about tbpr too much. As long as each page for each specific hotel or region is tailored to suck in traffic for the best phrases who care about whether it is a pr 7, 6, 5, 4 or nothing. I have some page that are greyed out but still get direct traffic from G.