TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors MCP Server

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TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

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

Uptime history 51 days of history · worst day 4%

51 days agonow

16.5%

Uptime 24h

15 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

506 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 11.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add travelerlocal --transport http https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travelerlocal": {
      "url": "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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "travelerlocal": {
      "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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	520 ms	7 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 15 of 91 checks got a reply (16.5%), average response time 506 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

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 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 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 506 ms on average, which is faster than 31% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.