Workshop Schedule (September 22, 2025)
08:30-08:45 Welcome
08:45-09:30 Keynote Alan Said: Recommender Systems in Tourism through a Fair and Sustainable Lens
09:30-10:30 Paper Presentations
– Apostolos Avranas, Moaad Maaroufi, Alix Lheriter, Rodrigo Acuna Agost and Eoin Thomas: Mix It Up: Improving Performance in Travel Choice Modeling
– Yuuki Tachioka: KP4POI: Efficient POI Recommendation on Large-scale Datasets via Knowledge Prompting of Venues and Users
– Joanna Zamiechowska, Julia Neidhardt and Wolfgang Wörndl: CiRi-Engine: POI Recommender System for Diverse and Balanced Walking Tours
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11:00-12:00 Paper Presentations
– Ioannis Partalas: Simple Regularization for Aligning Embedding Spaces for Cross-brand Recommendation
– Akshat Tandon and Ashmi Banerjee: Evaluating User Intent Classification and Hybrid Retrieval in a RAG-based Conversational Tourism Recommendation System
– Elena L. González-Sanz, Iván Cantador and Alejandro Bellogín: LLM-based Generation of Personalized, Context-aware City Tourist Itineraries: A User Study with GPT Trip Planner
12:00-12:30 Group Discussion on „Generative AI for Tourism Recommender Systems“ and Closing
Workshop Proceedings
The RecTour 2025 Proceedings have been published online by CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-4052