Questions people ask
Everything you need to know about the hub.
One connection to 100+ travel MCP servers. Here is how it works, what is live, and what it costs.
Using it
- What is an MCP server?
- An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server gives an AI assistant a real tool it can call — searching live flights, checking a visa, converting a currency — instead of guessing from memory. MCPHub.travel connects your assistant to 100+ of them for travel, through a single connection.
- Which AI assistants does it work with?
- Any assistant that speaks MCP: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok — in the CLI, in an app, or on the web. You point it at MCPHub.travel once and it reaches every server in the catalog.
- How do I connect it to Claude or ChatGPT?
- You connect the servers you want, then give your assistant the single MCPHub.travel endpoint — in Claude Desktop and on claude.ai that is a custom connector in settings, and in Claude Code it is a remote MCP server added from the CLI. Step-by-step guidance is at mcphub.travel/travel-mcp-servers-for-claude and mcphub.travel/travel-mcp-servers-for-chatgpt.
- Do I need to install or run anything?
- No. The servers run on our side. You connect once — there are no API keys to paste, no config files to keep alive, and nothing to update when an upstream source changes.
- Do I need to know how to code?
- No. Connecting a server is a setting in your assistant, not a build step — you pick the servers you want and paste one endpoint. Everything after that happens in the conversation, in ordinary words.
- What does “live” mean next to a server?
- We call each server's real endpoint and publish what came back. “Live” means it answered at the last check. When one slows down or disappears, the catalog says so — and we route around it rather than sending you at it.
Servers & data
- How many servers are there?
- 100+ travel MCP servers across 8 categories — flights, stays, activities & tours, cars & ground, eSIM & data, visas & entry, delay compensation, and everything else — with new ones added as they are vetted.
- Does it book the flight or the tour?
- Usually not. Almost every server returns live options and booking links, and the booking itself happens on the provider's own site, under their terms. Three servers can complete a transaction — Gondola, HemmaBo and Pifini — and each says so on its own page. Either way MCPHub.travel is the connection, not the merchant of record, and nothing is billed here.
- Which travel categories have no server yet?
- eSIM & data is still empty: its candidates all sit behind a login or inside one assistant's own directory. Delay compensation has nothing at all — we swept Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and the open MCP registries and found no flight-delay-compensation server anywhere. It is the only travel category that came back empty in every ecosystem, and it is the one we are building ourselves.
- Some servers say “needs your credentials” — what does that mean?
- Six do. Viator Experiences and TripGo Transport use credentials you already hold, and Gondola, HemmaBo, Tickadoo and Mapbox Travel sign you in over OAuth before their tools appear. You connect once, the credentials stay yours, and MCPHub.travel passes them through rather than holding a key of its own; that relationship is between you and them, and is never billed through us.
- What happens if a server I use breaks?
- We drop it from the run rather than failing your whole request, and the catalog says what happened. Your assistant loses one capability until it recovers; the rest of the connection keeps working. We do not delete the listing either — a server that stopped answering is information you wanted.
- Who can see my trips and data?
- We do not sell your data. What is stored, and why, is set out in the Privacy Policy — the short version is the minimum needed to run the connection and keep the catalog honest.
Account & billing
- Is it free?
- Yes — free while we are in early access, no card required. If we introduce paid plans later, we will say so clearly and give you notice before anything changes. Servers that use your own provider account are billed by that provider, never through us.
- How do you make money?
- Not from placement, and not from your data. Where a trip is booked through a listed server, the vendor and MCPHub.travel share what that booking earns, under an agreement with the vendor. Nobody pays to rank higher in the catalog — the order comes from access model and status.
- I built a travel MCP server — how do I list it?
- Listing is free. We call your endpoint, read your tool schema, and publish what we find — with your name on it. When a trip gets booked through your server, you take a share of what it earns. The requirements are at mcphub.travel/listing-rules, and you submit at mcphub.travel/submit.
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