The tourism domain demands AI systems that can integrate rich travel knowledge with language understanding. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has shown promise in adapting large language models to specialized domains, but travel applications in Vietnamese are largely unexplored. We present ViTravelRAG, a comprehensive framework tailored for Vietnamese travel tasks, including itinerary planning, destination QA, landmark identification. Our system ingests a multimodal travel corpus, text from Vietnamese travel blogs, guides, and booking sites, plus images of attractions, charts and builds a joint embedding index for retrieval. At query time, ViTravelRAG embeds user questions possibly with an image of a landmark or map and retrieves relevant documents and images, which are then fed to an language model to generate contextually grounded travel responses. To evaluate this approach, we curate a VietnamTravel-VQA Benchmark of 1,000 human-annotated query–document pairs in the tourism domain. Experimental results demonstrate that ViTravelRAG significantly outperforms the Gemini 2.5 Pro baselines, achieving an 8.6% gain in generation quality.

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ViTravelRAG: A Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Vietnamese Travel Assistance

  • Nguyen Van Nha,
  • Nguyen Nhu Giap,
  • Phung The Huan,
  • Le Minh Tuan,
  • Le Hoang Son

摘要

The tourism domain demands AI systems that can integrate rich travel knowledge with language understanding. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has shown promise in adapting large language models to specialized domains, but travel applications in Vietnamese are largely unexplored. We present ViTravelRAG, a comprehensive framework tailored for Vietnamese travel tasks, including itinerary planning, destination QA, landmark identification. Our system ingests a multimodal travel corpus, text from Vietnamese travel blogs, guides, and booking sites, plus images of attractions, charts and builds a joint embedding index for retrieval. At query time, ViTravelRAG embeds user questions possibly with an image of a landmark or map and retrieves relevant documents and images, which are then fed to an language model to generate contextually grounded travel responses. To evaluate this approach, we curate a VietnamTravel-VQA Benchmark of 1,000 human-annotated query–document pairs in the tourism domain. Experimental results demonstrate that ViTravelRAG significantly outperforms the Gemini 2.5 Pro baselines, achieving an 8.6% gain in generation quality.