6 papers
Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Sustainable City Trips with LLM-as-a-Judge and Human-in-the-Loop
Ashmi Banerjee, Adithi Satish, Wolfgang Wörndl +1
Evaluating nuanced conversational travel recommendations is challenging when human annotations are costly and standard metrics ignore stakeholder-centric goals. We study LLMs-as-Ju…
TRACE: A Conversational Framework for Sustainable Tourism Recommendation with Agentic Counterfactual Explanations
Ashmi Banerjee, Adithi Satish, Wolfgang Wörndl +1
Traditional conversational travel recommender systems primarily optimize for user relevance and convenience, often reinforcing popular, overcrowded destinations and carbon-intensiv…
SmartSustain Recommender System: Navigating Sustainability Trade-offs in Personalized City Trip Planning
Ashmi Banerjee, Melih Mert Aksoy, Wolfgang Wörndl
Tourism is a major contributor to global carbon emissions and over-tourism, creating an urgent need for recommender systems that not only inform but also gently steer users toward…
Enhancing Tourism Recommender Systems for Sustainable City Trips Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Ashmi Banerjee, Adithi Satish, Wolfgang Wörndl
Tourism Recommender Systems (TRS) have traditionally focused on providing personalized travel suggestions, often prioritizing user preferences without considering broader sustainab…
Modeling Sustainable City Trips: Integrating CO2e Emissions, Popularity, and Seasonality into Tourism Recommender Systems
Ashmi Banerjee, Tunar Mahmudov, Emil Adler +2
Tourism affects not only the tourism industry but also society and stakeholders such as the environment, local businesses, and residents. Tourism Recommender Systems (TRS) can be p…
A User Interface Study on Sustainable City Trip Recommendations
Ashmi Banerjee, Tunar Mahmudov, Wolfgang Wörndl
The importance of promoting sustainable and environmentally responsible practices is becoming increasingly recognized in all domains, including tourism. The impact of tourism exten…