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# RecTour 2024
Recommenders in Tourism 2024

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism
co-located with the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024)

### Bari, Italy, September 18, 2024.

Edited by

### Julia Neidhardt *
Tsvi Kuflik **
Amit Livne ***
Markus Zanker ****

* TU Wien, Austria
** The University of Haifa, Israel
*** Booking.com, Israel
**** Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, and University of Klagenfurt, Austria

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 9 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 8 papers were accepted for this volume, 7 as regular papers and 1 as industry paper. Additionally, this volume features 4 invited papers related to the RecTour 2024 Challenge.

### Research Papers

- TRACE: Transformer-based User Representations from Attributed Clickstream Event Sequences 1-10
  William Black, Alex Manlove, Jack Pennington, Andrea Marchini, Ercument Ilhan, Vilda Markeviciute
- Multi-funnel Recommender System for Cold Item Boosting 11-22
  Ahmed Khaili, Kostia Kofman, Edgar Cano, Adva Hadrian, Andrew Mende
- Structured Entity Extraction from Travel Videos Using Vision-Language Models 23-30
  Kevin Dela Rosa
- Lifecycle of Promotional Campaigns in the Online Travel Industry 31-38
  Carlos Herrero, Amit Livne, Itsik Adiv, Hugo Manuel Proença, Felipe Moraes, Javier Albert, Dima Goldenberg
- SMARTIE: Smart Museum for All Using a Range of Technology for Inclusive Experience 39-48
  Alexandra Danial-Saad, Yael Avni, Julia Sheidin, Tsvi Kuflik
- A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Tourism Review Generation 49-67
  Hiromasa Yamanishi, Ling Xiao, Toshihiko Yamasaki
- A Roadmap for Privacy Preserving Tourist Recommendation Systems 68-73
  Alan Wecker, Noa Tuval, Alain Hertz, Mohammad Mahamid, Tsvi Kuflik

### Industry Paper

- Journey to Centralizing Destination Recommendations 74-81
  Maria Prosviryakova, Gaurav Misra, Sebastien Le Digabel, Rodrigo Villatoro

### RecTour 2024 Challenge Papers

- Booking.com RecSys RecTour 2024 Challenge (short paper) 82-86
  Amit Livne, Eran Fainman
- Solution to the Personalized Accommodation Review Ranking Task via Tabular Data Approach (short paper) 87-92
  Yu Tokutake
- Accommodation Review Ranking for Tourism Recommendation (short paper) 93-99
  Emrul Hasan, Chen Ding, Sajib Saha, Neelima Preeti, Abdul Halim
- ProfileRec: Efficient Accommodation Review Ranking using Sentence Embeddings and Nearest-Neighbor Search (short paper) 100-103
  Rajorshi Chaudhuri, Pranav Bhatki, Yash Dubal

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