RecTour 2016

Published 1 September 2016

Daniel R. Fesenmaier, Tsvi Kuflik, Julia Neidhardt

Citations18

TL;DR

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, including group recommendations, context-aware recommenders, choice-based recommenders and event recommendations.

Abstract

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.

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Computer ScienceSocial Sciences

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