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# RecTour 2025
Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism
co-located with the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)

### Prague, Czech Republic, September 22, 2025.

Edited by

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

* TU Wien, Austria
** The University of Haifa, Israel
*** Booking.com, Israel
**** Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, and University of Klagenfurt, Austria
*** Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

## 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.

### 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

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