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 W\u00f6rndl: CiRi-Engine: POI Recommender System for Diverse and Balanced Walking Tours<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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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. Gonz\u00e1lez-Sanz, Iv\u00e1n Cantador and Alejandro Bellog\u00edn: LLM-based Generation of Personalized, Context-aware City Tourist Itineraries: A User Study with GPT Trip Planner
12:00-12:30 Group Discussion on \u201eGenerative AI for Tourism Recommender Systems\u201c and Closing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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