# TravelerLocal — China travel facts for foreign visitors (remote · www.travelerlocal.ai)

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

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- remote · `www.travelerlocal.ai`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal/api-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal/api-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-08-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 5 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 578 tokens (~115/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 27/100
  - Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal]
url = "https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal --url https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal:
    url: "https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-08-03 (score 70, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 7 days of observed history at the previous scan, 8 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-01 (score 69, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-31 (score 68, 0)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-30 (score 68, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-29 (score 67, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-07-27 (score 66, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-26 (score 65)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `get_city_facts` (~114 tokens)

Field-verified facts a foreign traveler needs for a Chinese city: 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>'.

Input parameters:

- `city` (string, required): City name or slug, e.g. "Beijing" or "lhasa".

### `check_attraction_booking` (~87 tokens)

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'.

Input parameters:

- `attraction` (string, required): Attraction name, e.g. "Forbidden City".

### `check_transit_eligibility` (~137 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `nationality` (string, required): Passport nationality, e.g. "United States".
- `onward_to_third_country` (boolean): True if flying onward to a different (third) country/region, not back to origin.
- `port` (string): Entry port or city, e.g. "Shanghai" or "Beijing Capital".

### `search_cities` (~53 tokens)

Search the cities TravelerLocal has field-verified pages for. Returns matching city names and page URLs. Use to discover coverage or resolve a place to a city.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): Partial city name or keyword.

### `get_travel_playbook` (~135 tokens)

TravelerLocal's field-verified stance 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'.

Input parameters:

- `topic` (string, required): One of: payments, connectivity, phone-number, arrival, hotels, transit.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal/api-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 70
- 2026-08-02: 69
- 2026-08-01: 69
- 2026-07-31: 68
- 2026-07-30: 68
- 2026-07-29: 67
- 2026-07-28: 66
- 2026-07-27: 66
- 2026-07-26: 65

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://www.travelerlocal.ai/api/mcp
- Website: https://www.travelerlocal.ai/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal/api-mcp/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal/api-mcp/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/xiaopeng215-sys-travelerlocal/api-mcp