Smart booking without looking: providing hotel recommendations in the TripRebel portal
Authors: 
Matthias Traub, 
Dominik Kowald, 
Emanuel Lacic, Pepijn Schoen, Gernot Supp, 
Elisabeth LexAuthors Info & Claims
Matthias Traub, Dominik Kowald, Emanuel Lacic, Pepijn Schoen, Gernot Supp, Elisabeth LexAuthors Info & ClaimsArticle No.: 50, Pages 1 - 4
Abstract
In this paper, we present a scalable hotel recommender system for TripRebel, a new online booking portal. On the basis of the open-source enterprise search platform Apache Solr, we developed a system architecture with Web-based services to interact with indexed data at large scale as well as to provide hotel recommendations using various state-of-the-art recommender algorithms. We demonstrate the efficiency of our system directly using the live TripRebel portal where, in its current state, hotel alternatives for a given hotel are calculated based on data gathered from the Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN).
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i-KNOW '15: 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-Driven Business
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