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TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors MCP Server

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TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Field-verified China travel facts for foreign visitors: booking walls, hotel registration, transit.

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
2.2%
Uptime 24h
2 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
469 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 16 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Aug 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_city_facts, get_travel_playbook, search_cities

TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 8.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add travelerlocal --transport http https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.travelerlocal]
url = "https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travelerlocal": {
      "url": "https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "travelerlocal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

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

attraction
check_attraction_booking
How a foreigner books a specific Chinese attraction: real-name/passport requirement, ticket release time, whether it sells out, the OFFICIAL channel, and whether authorized resellers exist. Use for 'can foreigners book the Forbidden City / Terracotta Army / Mogao Caves and when do tickets release'.
cities
search_cities
Search the cities TravelerLocal has guide pages for. Returns matching city names and page URLs. Use to discover coverage or resolve a place to a city.
city
get_city_facts
Facts a foreign traveler needs for a Chinese city, checked against official sources and dated: which attractions need real-name/passport booking and when tickets release, official ticket channels (no resellers), whether hotels register foreign guests, whether foreign cards work via Alipay/WeChat, and honest local notes. Use for questions like 'how do I book X in <city>' or 'can foreigners stay in hotels in <city>'.
transit
check_transit_eligibility
Whether a traveler qualifies for China's 240-hour visa-free TRANSIT (not the 30-day visa-free entry). Needs nationality, the entry port/city, and whether they have an onward ticket to a THIRD country/region. Returns eligibility, regional limits, and the defining conditions.
travel
get_travel_playbook
TravelerLocal's stance, checked against official sources and dated, on the system-level things foreigners get wrong in China (not a specific place): paying when a foreign card fails, eSIM vs VPN and the firewall, the Chinese-phone-number wall, the first hour after landing, hotel foreigner-registration, and visa-free transit. Use for 'why does my card keep getting declined in China', 'do I need a VPN or an eSIM', 'do I need a Chinese phone number', 'what do I do when I land'.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp streamable-http answering 66 ms 8 min ago

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TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_attraction_booking, check_transit_eligibility, get_city_facts, get_travel_playbook, search_cities. 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 TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 2 of 91 checks got a reply (2.2%), average response time 469 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors need an API key?
No. TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors?
It answers our handshake in 469 ms on average, which is faster than 25% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.