RecTour 2025
Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 7 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 6 papers were accepted for this volume, all 6 as regular papers.

Research Papers

• Mix It Up: Improving Performance in Travel Choice Modeling 1-15
  Apostolos Avranas, Moaad Maaroufi, Alix Lheriter, Rodrigo Acuna Agost, Eoin Thomas
• KP4POI: Efficient POI Recommendation on Large-scale Datasets via Knowledge Prompting of Venues and Users 16-28
  Yuuki Tachioka
• CiRi-Engine: POI Recommender System for Diverse and Balanced Walking Tours 29-37
  Joanna Zamiechowska, Julia Neidhardt, Wolfgang Wörndl
• Simple Regularization for Aligning Embedding Spaces for Cross-brand Recommendation 38-45
  Ioannis Partalas
• Evaluating User Intent Classification and Hybrid Retrieval in a RAG-based Conversational Tourism Recommendation System 46-61
  Akshat Tandon, Ashmi Banerjee
• LLM-based Generation of Personalized, Context-aware City Tourist Itineraries: A User Study with GPT Trip Planner 68-73
  Elena L. González-Sanz, Iván Cantador, Alejandro Bellogín