TravelType MCP Server

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answering

TravelType is answering right now. Last checked 2 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

Search and explore a global travel points-of-interest catalog (cities, countries, POIs).

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 87%

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

253 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check TravelType every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add travel-poi --transport http https://mcp.traveltype.app

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travel-poi": {
      "url": "https://mcp.traveltype.app"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.travel-poi]
url = "https://mcp.traveltype.app"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travel-poi": {
      "url": "https://mcp.traveltype.app"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travel-poi": {
      "url": "https://mcp.traveltype.app"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

cities

list_cities

List active cities ordered by POI count, with coordinates and Wikidata QID. Paginate with limit/offset; filter by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.

city

get_city

Get one city by slug, including POI count, top distinctive tags, top categories, and a sample of its top POIs.

countries

list_countries

List every country that has at least one active city, with city and POI counts.

country

get_country

Get one country by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, including its active cities (top 100 by POI count).

poi

get_poi_details

Get one POI by UUID or slug, with full enrichment: coordinates, approved tags, categories, Wikidata/OSM/Google identifiers, and hero image.

pois

search_pois

Free-text POI search with prefix/tag/fuzzy ranking plus popularity and geo boosts. Provide `q` (free text, min 2 chars) and/or `city` (slug); with both, the search is scoped to that city. Optionally narrow with `tags` (a POI must carry all of them). At least one of `q` or `city` is required.

similar

find_similar_pois

Find the nearest POIs to the given one by tag-cosine similarity (shared distinctive tags) — 'more like this'. Empty when the POI has only generic tags.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.traveltype.app	streamable-http	answering	257 ms	2 min ago

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TravelType — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can TravelType do?

It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_similar_pois, get_city, get_country, get_poi_details, list_cities, list_countries and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is TravelType working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 253 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect TravelType?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does TravelType need an API key?

No. TravelType completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is TravelType?

It answers our handshake in 253 ms on average, which is faster than 57% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.