Well, you can search for a theme getting closer to what you need and tweak-it, but marketplace project can be complex so it's better to do-it from scratch and fit the needs.

As everything in those type of projects is about data creation/storing/relations/retrieval/display, I would start before even installing October by mapping up the content "families" I'll need (hotels, restaurants, rating, comments, locations) and modeling the database tables for them.

It's all about Plugins ;)

Once October installed, you then can create the models (inside custom Plugins ) for your "content families", with the database fields you need, the backend fields reflecting them, and relations between them.

Think about what features you'll need for you website-users, on the frontend, start with basics (on the Blog plugin type) lists of deals/deals category/single-deal when clicked/comments, and more specific like rating or feedback. For those features, you'll need to create one or more Plugins (the Builder Plugin helps a lot) and components, to insert into your layout/design.

To put it simple, I don't think there is a unique and mandatory process to get things done, but just need to understand the basics, and build from that. I guess you had already watched them, but even if so, the video series WatchLearn can help with getting some key-points to your project: http://watch-learn.com/series/making-websites-with-october-cms

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U're welcome ;) have fun with your October coding.