{"id":11,"date":"2017-03-11T17:32:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T17:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2017\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2018-07-13T08:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T08:55:45","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ec.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour2018\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the web transformed the tourism domain. Today, travellers no longer rely on travel agents\/agencies. Indeed, recent studies indicate that they are now active in searching for information and composing their vacation packages according to their specific preferences. When onsite, they search for freely available information about the site itself rather than buying a visitor guide, renting a mobile guide or hiring even a tour guide that may be available, but is considered to be expensive and sometimes outdated. However, like in many other cases, the blessing of the Web comes with a curse \u2013 the curse of information overload. Recommender systems are a practical tool for overcoming this information overload. However, the tourism domain is substantially more complicated, and as such, creates huge challenges for those designing tourism focused recommender systems. Planning a vacation usually involves searching for a set of products that are interconnected (e.g., means of transportation, lodging, attractions), with a rather limited availability, and where contextual aspects may have a major impact (e.g., time, location, social context, environmental context). In addition and most importantly, products are emotionally \u201cloaded\u201d and considered \u201cexperience goods;\u201d therefore, decision taking is not only based on rational and objective criteria (i.e., system 2 thinking). As such, providing the right information to visitors of a tourism site at the right time about the site itself and various services nearby is challenging. <\/span><\/p>\n

RecTour 2018 will focus on the specific challenges for recommender systems in the tourism domain. Having a workshop focused on tourism will provide an opportunity for RecSys participants working in this area to discuss specific issues of interest. We also hope to attract additional, domain specific professionals that initially might not consider attending RecSys.<\/span><\/p>\n

The primary goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields, e.g., tourism, recommender systems, user modelling, user interaction, mobile, ubiquitous and ambient technologies, artificial intelligence and web information systems, so as to discuss and illustrate challenges and applications of these technologies in tourism recommender systems of the future. Important aspects and topics to be discussed evolve around (but are not limited to):<\/span><\/p>\n