TourWithMe: Recommending peers to visit attractions together

ARMENTANO, MARCELO G.; ARMENTANO, MARCELO G.; BERDÚN, LUIS S.; BERDÚN, LUIS S.; VALLEJOS, SEBASTIAN; VALLEJOS, SEBASTIAN

Copenhague

Workshop; ACM Recsys Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (Rectour 2019); 2019

Association of Computer Machinery (ACM)

When a user travels alone or in a small group, usually likes to share the experience of visiting different attractions in a larger group. This article propose TourWithMe, our first approach to the problem of recommending peers to visit attractions in a city together. To this aim, TourWithMe automatically learns the user?s interests from previously visited attractions, that are then combined with explicit preferences provided by the user to find compatible tourists in the city. TourWithMe recommends to the user different groups and, for each group, attractions that they would enjoy visiting together.