Challenge: Existing travel planning systems assume users provide explicit queries, limiting their practical utility.
Approach: They propose a dataset RETAIL which supports decision-making for implicit queries while covering explicit queries.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves a 1.0% pass rate, suggesting real-world travel planning remains challenging.

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