Beyond Itinerary Planning-A Real-World Benchmark for Multi-Turn and Tool-Using Travel Tasks

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Auteurs principaux: Cheng, Xiang, Hu, Yulan, Zhang, Xiangwen, Xu, Lu, Tan, Lide, Pan, Zheng, Li, Xin, Liu, Yong
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author Cheng, Xiang
Hu, Yulan
Zhang, Xiangwen
Xu, Lu
Tan, Lide
Pan, Zheng
Li, Xin
Liu, Yong
author_facet Cheng, Xiang
Hu, Yulan
Zhang, Xiangwen
Xu, Lu
Tan, Lide
Pan, Zheng
Li, Xin
Liu, Yong
contents Travel planning is a natural real-world task to test large language models' (LLMs) planning and tool-use abilities. Although prior work has studied LLM performance on travel planning, existing settings still differ from real-world needs, mainly due to limited domain coverage, insufficient modeling of users' implicit preferences in multi-turn conversations, and a lack of evaluation of agents' capability boundaries. To mitigate these gaps, we propose $\textbf{TravelBench}$, a benchmark for $\textit{truly real-world}$ travel planning. We collect user queries, user preferences, and tools from real scenarios, and construct three subtasks -- $\textit{Single-Turn}$, $\textit{Multi-Turn}$, and $\textit{Unsolvable}$ -- to evaluate agents' three core capabilities in real settings: (1) solving problems independently, (2) interacting with users to elicit implicit preferences, and (3) recognizing the capability boundaries. To enable stable tool invocation and reproducible evaluation, we cache real tool-call results and build a sandbox environment which integrates ten travel-related tools, enabling agents to combine these tools to solve most practical travel planning problems. We evaluate multiple LLMs on TravelBench and find that even advanced models exhibit imbalanced performance across different capabilities. Our further systematic verification demonstrates the stability of the proposed benchmark. TravelBench provides a practical and reproducible benchmark to advance research on LLM agents for real-world travel planning.
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spellingShingle Beyond Itinerary Planning-A Real-World Benchmark for Multi-Turn and Tool-Using Travel Tasks
Cheng, Xiang
Hu, Yulan
Zhang, Xiangwen
Xu, Lu
Tan, Lide
Pan, Zheng
Li, Xin
Liu, Yong
Artificial Intelligence
Travel planning is a natural real-world task to test large language models' (LLMs) planning and tool-use abilities. Although prior work has studied LLM performance on travel planning, existing settings still differ from real-world needs, mainly due to limited domain coverage, insufficient modeling of users' implicit preferences in multi-turn conversations, and a lack of evaluation of agents' capability boundaries. To mitigate these gaps, we propose $\textbf{TravelBench}$, a benchmark for $\textit{truly real-world}$ travel planning. We collect user queries, user preferences, and tools from real scenarios, and construct three subtasks -- $\textit{Single-Turn}$, $\textit{Multi-Turn}$, and $\textit{Unsolvable}$ -- to evaluate agents' three core capabilities in real settings: (1) solving problems independently, (2) interacting with users to elicit implicit preferences, and (3) recognizing the capability boundaries. To enable stable tool invocation and reproducible evaluation, we cache real tool-call results and build a sandbox environment which integrates ten travel-related tools, enabling agents to combine these tools to solve most practical travel planning problems. We evaluate multiple LLMs on TravelBench and find that even advanced models exhibit imbalanced performance across different capabilities. Our further systematic verification demonstrates the stability of the proposed benchmark. TravelBench provides a practical and reproducible benchmark to advance research on LLM agents for real-world travel planning.
title Beyond Itinerary Planning-A Real-World Benchmark for Multi-Turn and Tool-Using Travel Tasks
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22673