MCP server for travel planning and itinerary management
Travel planner mcp server connects TRAVEL PLANNER to AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. MCP server for travel planning and itinerary management.
A Travel Planner Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation for interacting with Google Maps and travel planning services. This server enables LLMs to perform travel-related tasks such as location search, place details lookup, and travel time calculations.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 6 tools directly:
searchPlaces — Search for places using Google Places APIInput — - query (string): Search query for placesgetPlaceDetails — Get detailed information about a specific placecalculateRoute — Calculate route between two locationsgetTimeZone — Get timezone information for a locationTools — The Tools tool exposed by this serverThe server is distributed via npm as @smithery/cli, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
Before the server will start you need to supply one environment variable: GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
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 PLANNER sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — searchPlaces, Input, getPlaceDetails among others — 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.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| searchPlaces | Search for places using Google Places API |
| Input | - query (string): Search query for places |
| getPlaceDetails | Get detailed information about a specific place |
| calculateRoute | Calculate route between two locations |
| getTimeZone | Get timezone information for a location |
| Tools | The Tools tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"travel-planner": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"],
"env": {
"GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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