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Available tools

search_locations

Search TripAdvisor locations by text query. Optionally filter by category (hotels, attractions, restaurants, geos), address, phone, or lat/long with radius. Returns up to 10 results.

search_nearby_locations

Search TripAdvisor locations near a latitude/longitude coordinate. Optionally filter by category, address, phone, or radius. Returns up to 10 nearby results.

get_location_details

Get detailed information for a TripAdvisor location by ID. Returns name, description, address, rating, reviews count, ranking, contact info, hours, amenities, cuisine, and more.

get_location_photos

Get photos for a TripAdvisor location. Returns up to 5 high-quality photos per request. Filter by source (Expert, Management, Traveler). Use offset from page_info for pagination.

get_location_reviews

Get reviews for a TripAdvisor location. Returns up to 5 recent reviews per request. Use offset from page_info for pagination.

validate_credential

Validate TripAdvisor API credentials by testing authentication with a lightweight search call. Returns {success, message}.

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How to set up Merge Agent Handler

In an mcp.json file, add the configuration below, and restart Cursor.

Learn more in the official documentation ↗

1{
2  "mcpServers": {
3    "agent-handler": {
4      "url": "https://ah-api-develop.merge.dev/api/v1/tool-packs/{TOOL_PACK_ID}/registered-users/{REGISTERED_USER_ID}/mcp",
5      "headers": {
6        "Authorization": "Bearer yMt*****"
7      }
8    }
9  }
10}
11

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Open your Claude Desktop configuration file and add the server configuration below. You'll also need to restart the application for the changes to take effect.

Make sure Claude is using the Node v20+.

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1{
2  "mcpServers": {
3    "agent-handler": {
4      "command": "npx",
5      "args": [
6        "-y",
7        "mcp-remote@latest",
8        "https://ah-api-develop.merge.dev/api/v1/tool-packs/{TOOL_PACK_ID}/registered-users/{REGISTERED_USER_ID}/mcp",
9        "--header",
10        "Authorization: Bearer ${AUTH_TOKEN}"
11      ],
12      "env": {
13        "AUTH_TOKEN": "yMt*****"
14      }
15    }
16  }
17}

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Open your Windsurf MCP configuration file and add the server configuration below.
Click on the refresh button in the top right of the Manage MCP server page or in the top right of the chat box in the box icon.

Learn more in the official documentation ↗

1{
2    "mcpServers": {
3      "agent-handler": {
4        "command": "npx",
5        "args": [
6          "-y",
7          "mcp-remote@latest",
8          "https://ah-api.merge.dev/api/v1/tool-packs/<tool-pack-id>/registered-users/<registered-user-id>/mcp",
9          "--header",
10          "Authorization: Bearer ${AUTH_TOKEN}"
11        ],
12        "env": {
13          "AUTH_TOKEN": "<ah-production-access-key>"
14        }
15      }
16    }
17  }

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In Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows), run "MCP: Open User Configuration".

You can then add the configuration below and press "start" right under servers. Enter the auth token when prompted.

Learn more in the official documentation ↗

1{
2  "inputs": [
3    {
4      "type": "promptString",
5      "id": "agent-handler-auth",
6      "description": "Agent Handler AUTH_TOKEN", // "yMt*****" when prompt
7      "password": true
8    }
9  ],
10  "servers": {
11    "agent-handler": {
12      "type": "stdio",
13      "command": "npx",
14      "args": [
15        "-y",
16        "mcp-remote@latest",
17        "https://ah-api-develop.merge.dev/api/v1/tool-packs/{TOOL_PACK_ID}/registered-users/{REGISTERED_USER_ID}/mcp",
18        "--header",
19        "Authorization: Bearer ${input:agent-handler-auth}"
20      ]
21    }
22  }
23}

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FAQs on using Merge's TripAdvisor MCP server

What is a Tripadvisor MCP?

It's an MCP server that connects your agents to Tripadvisor's location and travel data via tools. Your agents can invoke these tools to search destinations by name or coordinates, retrieve business details and ratings, read traveler reviews, and more.

Tripadvisor doesn't offer an MCP server purpose built for Tripadvisor, but you can use one from a third-party platform, like Merge Agent Handler.

How can I use the Tripadvisor MCP server?

The use cases naturally depend on the agent you've built, but here are a few common ones:

Personalized travel itinerary generation: When a user specifies a destination and preferences in a travel planning app, an agent searches Tripadvisor for matching hotels, restaurants, and attractions, retrieves their ratings and details, and assembles a curated day-by-day itinerary

Competitive benchmarking for hospitality operators: When a hotel or restaurant wants to benchmark against nearby competitors, an agent pulls Tripadvisor ratings and recent reviews for a defined set of locations and generates a summary report for the operations or marketing team

Review monitoring and response triage: An agent checks new Tripadvisor reviews for a property on a daily schedule, flags anything below a 3-star rating, and creates a follow-up task in a project management tool for the customer experience team

Location enrichment for travel apps: When a user saves a destination in a travel app, an agent calls Tripadvisor to pull photos, ratings, and business details for that location and stores the enriched data in the app's database for display in the UI

What are popular tools for Tripadvisor's MCP server?

Here are some of the most commonly used tools:

search_locations: searches Tripadvisor for locations matching a text query, returning names, addresses, and category. Use this when an agent needs to find hotels, restaurants, or attractions based on a user-provided search term

search_nearby_locations: returns locations within a radius of specific coordinates, optionally filtered by category such as hotels, restaurants, or attractions. Good for workflows that surface options near a user's current position or a planned destination

get_location_details: retrieves full details for a specific Tripadvisor location, including overall rating, price level, hours, contact info, and website. Helpful when an agent needs complete business data to populate a travel profile or build a recommendation card

get_location_reviews: fetches traveler reviews for a location, including rating, title, review text, and reviewer metadata. Call this when an agent needs to analyze sentiment, flag recent low scores, or pull social proof for a destination

get_location_photos: returns photos submitted to Tripadvisor for a specific location, sourced from real visitors. Use this when an agent is assembling a visual itinerary or enriching a travel product with authentic location imagery

What makes Merge Agent Handler's Tripadvisor MCP server better than alternative Tripadvisor MCP servers?

Tripadvisor doesn't have an official MCP server, so if you're choosing between building your own wrapper or using a community implementation, here's what Merge Agent Handler adds:

Enterprise-grade security and DLP: Merge Agent Handler includes built-in data loss prevention controls that let you block or redact sensitive fields before they reach an agent. For Tripadvisor, this means you can prevent review content, location data, and business details used in competitive analysis from reaching agents that don't need that level of access

Managed authentication and credentials: Merge stores and manages your Tripadvisor API credentials on your behalf. You never pass raw API keys into an agent or rebuild your credential setup when keys are rotated

Real-time observability and audit trail: Every tool call against Tripadvisor is captured with timestamp, tool name, query parameters, and response data. You have a full record of what location data an agent accessed without writing any logging infrastructure yourself

Tool Packs and controlled access: Tool Packs let you bundle specific Tripadvisor tools with tools from other connectors into a single MCP endpoint, scoped to a specific use case. An agent gets exactly the tools it needs, nothing more

How can I start using Merge Agent Handler's Tripadvisor MCP server?

You can take the following steps:

1. Create or log into your Merge Agent Handler account and navigate to Tool Packs (collections of connector tools scoped to a specific use case).

2. Create a new Tool Pack, then find and enable the Tripadvisor connector. All core tools are read-only: search_locations and search_nearby_locations handle discovery, while get_location_details, get_location_reviews, and get_location_photos cover data retrieval for specific places.

3. Add a Registered User inside the Tool Pack. This is the identity context under which your agent operates. Merge generates a unique MCP URL scoped to this user once it's created.

4. From the Registered User detail page, authenticate Tripadvisor by entering your API credentials. Merge stores and manages those credentials going forward.

5. Copy the MCP URL from the Tool Pack detail page and generate an API key from Settings. You'll need both to connect your agent.

6. Add the MCP server to your agent or IDE using the MCP URL and API key. Your Tripadvisor tools are now accessible through that endpoint.

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