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Fact copy: What is possible with MCP in travel?

A feasibility atlas from read-only context access to controlled transactions.

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Factual summary

A feasibility atlas from read-only context access to controlled transactions. The module separates protocol behaviour, travel-domain truth and editorial inference.

Decision question and scope

A feasibility atlas from read-only context access to controlled transactions.

The analysis starts with a bounded user task and compares MCP with a direct API or deterministic workflow. A working demonstration is not evidence of production readiness.

Architecture and responsibilities

The assessment identifies the host, one client relationship per server, MCP servers, authorization boundaries and authoritative travel systems. MCP standardizes capability interaction; it does not supply inventory, pricing, order semantics or business authorization.

Assessment dimensions

Each dimension requires an owner, evidence, test date and explicit boundary.

  • Informationszugriff
  • Recherche und Vergleich
  • vorbereitende Prozessschritte
  • verbindliche Transaktionen
  • mehrstufige agentische Abläufe

Travel case

Verfügbarkeiten abfragen ist meist leichter beherrschbar als eine Buchung; Zahlung, Storno und Erstattung erfordern zusätzliche fachliche Zustände und Kontrollen.

The case is complete only when source provenance, state transitions, permissions, expiry, partial failure and recovery are documented.

Evidence and failure analysis

Required evidence includes versioned contracts, negative authorization and schema tests, authoritative state reconciliation, measurable service objectives and a controlled shutdown path. Registry or publisher metadata alone is not a security or compatibility finding.

Outcome

Jedes Szenario erhält eine Reifestufe, technische Voraussetzungen, Grenzen und ein nachvollziehbares Risikoprofil.

The result must state assumptions, unresolved risks and conditions under which MCP is not the appropriate integration choice.

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