I am just about to launch a new version of a site and am going to change the URL structure. The 301 redirects are in place from old URLs to new, I have a question related to keywords in the URL though...

I was going to have region based URLs (country, region, city) all operating under the 'place' keyword, i.e.
domain.com/place/Edinburgh-hotels-5677.html

But nobody is going to search for the word 'place' so its a wasted word. Instead I am thinking of using a keyword that people search for, e.g.
domain.com/book/Edinburgh-hotels-5677.html
domain.com/find/Edinburgh-hotels-5677.html
domain.com/reserve/Edinburgh-hotels-5677.html

Could this be bad in anyway? Maybe SEs consider it spamming...?

Thanks
Ben