Live in Days, Not Months: The Integration That Doesn't Need a Dedicated Team

When teams decide to add a new vertical, the part they underestimate is not the idea. It is the integration. Every supplier connection takes engineering time, and engineering time is the scarcest resource in most travel companies.

So it is worth asking, before anything else: how much work does this actually take?

What integration normally involves

Building an activities offer on your own typically means:

• Negotiating and onboarding supplier after supplier
• Learning and implementing a different API for each one
• Normalizing data, availability and pricing into a common format
• Building and testing a booking and payment flow that handles every supplier's exceptions
• Maintaining all of it as suppliers change

Each step is reasonable. Together, they are a project that occupies a team for a long time.

What it involves with TourScanner

You integrate once. The rest is already behind the API:

• One catalog. More than 1,000,000 activities across thousands of cities, in 11 languages.
• One data model. Consistent fields for name, description, rating, price and a thumbnail image.
• One booking pipeline. Hold, Stripe payment and confirm, with voucher and ticket links returned as soon as the supplier provides them.
• Three ways to connect. REST API, OpenAPI specification and a remote MCP server with 12 tools for AI agents.

A first call

The first request is short enough to run from a terminal:

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  "https://tourscanner.ai/api/search/activities?city_name=rome&sort=caliber&limit=5"

Within a few minutes of having a key, you can see real, ranked activities coming back.

A sensible rollout

You don't have to launch everything at once. Many teams phase it:

1. Search and display. Show ranked activities for a city in your app or site.
2. Live availability. Add real-time slots and prices when a traveler picks a date.
3. Booking and checkout. Enable the hold-and-confirm flow, with Stripe payment.
4. Conversational layer. Add the TourScanner agent, or connect your own assistant through MCP.

Each phase is useful on its own, and each builds on the last. You can start earning from the first bookings without waiting for the full experience.

Testing safely

API keys are issued on request. When you begin integrating, sandbox booking on provider test rails can be arranged, so you can test the full flow before going live.

What your team keeps doing

Using a unified API doesn't remove your engineers from the picture. It changes what they work on: your interface, your user experience and your conversion funnel, instead of supplier connections and payment edge cases.

Getting started

Tell us what you're building, whether it's a travel app, a hotel platform, an airline ancillary flow or an AI assistant, and request your API key at tourscanner.ai. We'll help you choose the first phase.