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How to Build an Interactive Destination Guide with an AI Agent

· TourScanner Team

A static guide tells every traveler the same thing. An interactive guide listens first.

With the TourScanner remote MCP server (12 tools), your AI assistant can search a large catalog, check live availability, create checkout links and look up bookings, so a guide becomes something travelers can both read and act on.

How to Build an Interactive Destination Guide with an AI Agent

What the traveler experiences

  • They describe what they want: "two days in Barcelona, we like architecture and food".
  • The agent searches relevant activities and checks real time slots and prices for their dates.
  • They pick what they like, and the assistant hands them a checkout link in the same conversation.

How to build it

  1. Connect your agent to the TourScanner MCP server, using an API key we issue.
  2. Give it your guide's context: destination, tone, the traveler's dates and group.
  3. Let it use the search, availability and checkout-link tools when the traveler asks.
  4. Present the results inside your own interface.

Why it works

  • Your editorial voice stays yours; the live inventory comes from TourScanner.
  • The guide works in the traveler's language, with content available in 11 languages.
  • Every recommendation can be backed by a real price and a real time slot.

Get started: try the agent on tourscanner.ai, then request access to connect your own.