Travel MCP Server

MCP server for travel planning

Local serverstdioTypeScript

What is the Travel MCP server?

If you want an AI assistant working directly with Travel, the travel mcp server is the bridge. MCP server for travel planning.

What Travel does

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for comprehensive travel planning, providing flight search, accommodation booking, currency exchange, weather forecasting, and trip budget calculation capabilities.

Key capabilities

  • 🛫 Flight Search: Find and compare flights with various options
  • 🏨 Accommodation Search: Search for hotels, vacation rentals, and other accommodations
  • 💱 Currency Exchange: Get real-time exchange rates for travel budgeting
  • 🌤️ Weather Forecast: Check weather conditions for your travel dates
  • 💰 Trip Budget Calculator: Calculate and plan your travel expenses

Tools it exposes

Once connected, the assistant can call these 2 tools directly:

  • Development — The Development tool exposed by this server
  • Production — The Production tool exposed by this server

Installing the travel mcp server

Setup follows the standard MCP pattern: clone or install the server, then register it in your client's configuration file and restart the client. The configuration snippets on this page cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.

Configuration

Before the server will start you need to supply 5 environment variables: FLIGHT_API_KEY, BOOKING_API_KEY, EXCHANGE_API_KEY, WEATHER_API_KEY, GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.

Where it fits

Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Travel sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — Development, Production — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

  • This server runs locally, so it operates with whatever access your machine and its credentials already have. Scope that deliberately rather than by default.
  • It will not start until its required credentials are present, so set those before wondering why the tools never appear.
  • Maintained by gs-ysingh, written in TypeScript.
  • MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the travel mcp server actually does with your data.
  • Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
DevelopmentThe Development tool exposed by this server.
ProductionThe Production tool exposed by this server.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
FLIGHT_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
BOOKING_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
EXCHANGE_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
WEATHER_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes

Example prompts to try

  • Use Travel to Development.
  • Use Travel to Production.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Travel to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 2 tools (Development, Production) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Travel directly.