RecTour 2016: Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism

In this paper, we summarize RecTour 2016 -- a workshop on recommenders in tourism co-located with RecSys 2016. There was a great variety of submissions, i.e., research papers, demo papers and position papers, addressing fundamental challenges of recommender systems in the tourism domain. The main topics included group recommendations, context-aware recommenders, choice-based recommenders and event recommendations.

[1]  Jan Fabian Ehmke,et al.  Position Paper: Combining Mobility Services by Customer-Induced Orchestration , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[2]  Francesco Ricci,et al.  E-commerce and tourism , 2004, CACM.

[3]  Wolfgang Wörndl,et al.  Exploiting Item Dependencies to Improve Tourist Trip Recommendations , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[4]  Derek Bridge,et al.  Improved Recommendation of Photo-Taking Locations using Virtual Ratings , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[5]  Maria Soledad Pera,et al.  "One Size Doesn't Fit All": Helping Users Find Events from Multiple Perspectives , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[6]  Ulrike Gretzel,et al.  Future research issues in IT and tourism , 2015, J. Inf. Technol. Tour..

[7]  Francesco Ricci,et al.  Research Methods for Group Recommender System , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[8]  Sanjog Ray,et al.  A Motivation-Aware Approach for Point of Interest Recommendations , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[9]  Wolfgang Wörndl,et al.  Learning the Popularity of Items for Mobile Tourist Guides , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[10]  Maria Soledad Pera,et al.  Anything Fun Going On? A Simple Wizard to Avoid the Cold-Start Problem for Event Recommenders , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[11]  Christoph Trattner,et al.  Understanding the Impact of Weather for POI Recommendations , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[12]  Dan Wang,et al.  Going Mobile , 2015 .

[13]  Eduardo Sánchez Vila,et al.  Choice-Based Recommender Systems , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[14]  Manoj Reddy Dareddy.  Challenges in Recommender Systems for Tourism , 2016, RecTour@RecSys.

[15]  Hannes Werthner,et al.  Eliciting the users' unknown preferences , 2014, RecSys '14.