This one-day workshop held in conjunction with RecSys 2017 addresses specific challenges for recommender systems in the tourism domain. Planning a vacation usually involves searching for a set of products that are interconnected (e.g., transportation, lodging, attractions) with limited availability, and where contextual aspects may have a major impact (e.g., spatiotemporal context). RecTour 2017 aims at attracting presentations of novel ideas in order to advance the current state of the art in the field of tourism recommenders; topics include specific applications and case studies (evaluation), specific methods and techniques, context and mobility, the cold-start problem, preference elicitation, and emotions and recommenders. Researchers and practitioners from different fields are invited to submit research and position papers as well as demonstration systems.
During the workshop we will identify typical user groups, tasks and roles in order to achieve an adequate personalization and recommendation for tourism applications. Important aspects and topics to be discussed evolve around (but are not limited to):
Specific applications and case studies (evaluation)
Specific methods and techniques for tourism recommenders
Novel ICT and its impact on travel and tourism
Integrating data – exploiting data from various sources, i.e., catalogues, Linked Open Data, and usage logs
Context and mobility in tourism
Cold-start problem in the context of tourism recommenders
Preference elicitation in tourism
Emotions and tourism recommenders
Interaction
Interaction concepts with personal (mobile or desktop) and group (on-site public or desktop) displays
Information needs, information access (incl. visualisation) and search patterns
Collaboration, communication and sharing aspects in the process of tourist information consumption
Personalized explanations and feedback of recommendation systems
Digital storytelling, narratives, smart summaries and recommendation explanations
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