AI RESEARCH

TRACE: A Conversational Framework for Sustainable Tourism Recommendation with Agentic Counterfactual Explanations

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2604.14223v1 Announce Type: cross Traditional conversational travel recommender systems primarily optimize for user relevance and convenience, often reinforcing popular, overcrowded destinations and carbon-intensive travel choices. To address this, we present TRACE (Tourism Recommendation with Agentic Counterfactual Explanations), a multi-agent, LLM-based framework that promotes sustainable tourism through interactive nudging.